Bill Text: NY A09165 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9165

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - referred to social services [A09165 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09165-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9165

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MEEKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  quar-
          terly inspections of homeless shelters

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

     1    Section 1. Section 20 of the social services law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  The office of temporary and disability assistance shall promulgate
     4  rules and regulations requiring that the department, or a  local  social
     5  services  district  where appropriate, shall each year conduct a minimum
     6  of four full unannounced inspections of each facility which is  used  to
     7  shelter  homeless  persons  within  the  state,  with  at least one full
     8  inspection performed each quarter.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06287-01-3