Bill Text: NY A01465 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires working kitchens in homeless family shelter units.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to social services [A01465 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01465-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1465 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring family homeless shelters for ten or more families in the city of New York to have a working kitchen in each individual housing unit The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 2 152-c to read as follows: 3 § 152-c. On-site working kitchens. In the city of New York any provid- 4 er of temporary housing assistance for ten or more families in a family 5 homeless shelter shall be required to have a working kitchen in each 6 individual housing unit. Such "working kitchen" shall be installed 7 within sixty days of the registration of the contract between the opera- 8 tor of such family homeless shelter and the city of New York. For the 9 purposes of this section, "working kitchen" shall mean an area in each 10 individual housing unit where food can be prepared and cooked. Such 11 working kitchen shall include, at a minimum, a sink, a refrigerator and 12 a double burner stove. If a provider of temporary family housing shel- 13 ter fails to meet the requirements set out in this section, it shall be 14 prohibited from accepting any new clients until such requirements are 15 met. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 17 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the 18 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary 19 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized 20 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01024-01-9