Bill Text: NY A04966 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits homeless shelters from denying shelter to a person because the person is considered to have other housing available unless the department of social services determines that such other housing is actually available, would not cause overcrowding, or put any person at unreasonable health or safety risk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-09 - referred to social services [A04966 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04966-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4966

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. DE LA ROSA, JEAN-PIERRE, J. RIVERA, CRUZ, DILAN
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to homeless persons
          seeking shelter

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (k-1) to read as follows:
     3    (k-1) ensure the following: (i) that no social  services  district  or
     4  established  or  temporary  operator  of  an  emergency  shelter  denies
     5  services to a person seeking shelter on  the  grounds  that  the  person
     6  seeking shelter has other housing available unless the property owner or
     7  tenant,  as  defined  in  section  two hundred thirty-five-f of the real
     8  property law, makes an affirmative declaration that the  person  seeking
     9  shelter is welcome to stay with such property owner or tenant; (ii) that
    10  such occupancy will not result in a situation where any person occupying
    11  the  home  has  fewer than eighty square feet of livable area; and (iii)
    12  that such occupancy would not put any person staying in the home  at  an
    13  unreasonable health or safety risk.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08524-01-1