Bill Text: NY A02651 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2651 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires limit to maximum length of stay at residential program for victims of domestic violence.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)

Status: (Passed) 2012-10-03 - signed chap.459 [A02651 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A02651-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2651
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 19, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. JACOBS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WEIN-
         STEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  residential
         services for victims of domestic violence
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 459-b of the social services law, as added by chap-
    2  ter 169 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 459-b. Residential services for victims  of  domestic  violence.  In
    4  accordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter and the
    5  regulations  of the [department] OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,
    6  a social services district shall offer and provide necessary and  avail-
    7  able  emergency shelter and services FOR UP TO NINETY DAYS at a residen-
    8  tial program for victims of domestic violence to a  victim  of  domestic
    9  violence who was residing in the social services district at the time of
   10  the alleged domestic violence whether or not such victim is eligible for
   11  public  assistance;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT SUCH LAW, RULES AND REGU-
   12  LATIONS SHALL PERMIT UP TO TWO EXTENSIONS OF UP TO  FORTY-FIVE  DAYS  OF
   13  NECESSARY  AND AVAILABLE EMERGENCY SHELTER AND SERVICES AT A RESIDENTIAL
   14  PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IF NEITHER  THE  RESIDENT,  THE
   15  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICT NOR THE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM IS ABLE TO SECURE
   16  ALTERNATIVE HOUSING, AS DEFINED BY REGULATION, FOR THE RESIDENT AND SUCH
   17  HOUSING IS NECESSARY.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   19  have  become  a  law;  provided, however, that effective immediately the
   20  commissioner of the office of children and family services is authorized
   21  and directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as he or she deems
   22  necessary to implement the provisions of  this  act  on  or  before  its
   23  effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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