Bill Text: NY A10566 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the commissioner to collect information regarding the sheltered and unsheltered homeless population during a state disaster emergency and publish a report containing such information on the department's website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - approval memo.37 [A10566 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10566-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10566--A IN ASSEMBLY June 3, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring the commissioner to prepare a report of the sheltered and unsheltered homeless population during a state disaster emergency 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 (d-1) to read as follows: 3 (d-1)(1) in consultation with each local health department in the 4 county in which the homeless shelter is located, the commissioner of the 5 department of health, the commissioners of the department of homeless 6 services, and the commissioner of the New York city department of health 7 and mental hygiene, shall collect information regarding the sheltered 8 and unsheltered homeless population, during a state disaster emergency, 9 declared pursuant to executive order two hundred two of two thousand 10 twenty in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, includ- 11 ing but not limited to: 12 (i) the number of confirmed infected individuals; 13 (ii) the number of hospitalizations; 14 (iii) the number of deaths; 15 (iv) information regarding the individual, if known; (a) age; (b) 16 race; (c) family composition; (d) shelter status; (e) type of shelter 17 including: family shelter, a shelter for adults, a hotel, an emergency 18 apartment, a domestic violence shelter, a runaway and homeless youth 19 shelter, or as a safe house for refugees; (f) any known risk factors; 20 and (g) any other information the office deems appropriate. 21 (2) utilizing the information collected pursuant to paragraph (1) of 22 this subdivision, the commissioners shall publish a report containing 23 such information aggregated by county and post it on the website of each 24 respective agency. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16493-02-0A. 10566--A 2 1 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply retroac- 2 tively beginning March 7, 2020 and any time thereafter during the state 3 disaster emergency declared pursuant to executive order 202 of 2020 in 4 response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.