Bill Text: NY S02086 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires social service districts to establish a homeless housing task force for purposes of developing a ten year plan and guidelines to address long-term and short-term housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S02086 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S02086-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2086
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 11, 2009
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       Introduced  by Sens. PARKER, DILAN, DUANE, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, ONORATO,
         SAMPSON, SAVINO, SCHNEIDERMAN,  SERRANO  --  read  twice  and  ordered
         printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social
         Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the creation  by
         each social services district of a homeless housing task force
         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  50-a to read as follows:
    3    S  50-A. HOMELESS HOUSING TASK FORCE. 1. EACH SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT
    4  IN THE STATE SHALL CREATE A HOMELESS HOUSING TASK  FORCE  TO  DEVELOP  A
    5  TEN-YEAR HOMELESS HOUSING PLAN ADDRESSING SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM HOUS-
    6  ING  FOR  HOMELESS PERSONS. SUCH PLAN SHALL INCLUDE GUIDELINES FOR EMER-
    7  GENCY SHELTERS; SHORT-TERM HOUSING;  TEMPORARY  ENCAMPMENTS;  SUPPORTIVE
    8  HOUSING  FOR  CHRONICALLY HOMELESS PERSONS; LONG-TERM HOUSING; STANDARDS
    9  FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY; AND PUBLIC NOTICE REGARDING LOCATION  OF  FACILI-
   10  TIES.
   11    2.  MEMBERSHIP  ON THE TASK FORCE SHALL INCLUDE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
   12  COUNTIES, CITIES, TOWNS, HOUSING AUTHORITIES, CIVIL AND FAITH  ORGANIZA-
   13  TIONS,  SCHOOLS,  COMMUNITY  NETWORKS,  HUMAN  SERVICES  PROVIDERS,  LAW
   14  ENFORCEMENT  PERSONNEL,  SUBSTANCE  ABUSE  TREATMENT  PROVIDERS,  MENTAL
   15  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDERS,  EMERGENCY  HEALTH  CARE PROVIDERS, BUSINESSES,
   16  AT-LARGE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMUNITY, AND A  HOMELESS  OR  FORMERLY
   17  HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL.
   18    3.  ANY  PLAN  AND  GUIDELINES DEVELOPED BY A SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT
   19  HOMELESS HOUSING TASK FORCE SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH REGULATIONS  APPLI-
   20  CABLE TO PROJECTS PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO TITLE ONE OF THIS ARTICLE.
   21    4.  EACH  DISTRICT  HOMELESS HOUSING TASK FORCE SHALL MAKE RECOMMENDA-
   22  TIONS BASED ON THE PLAN AND GUIDELINES REGARDING THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS
   23  RECEIVED FROM ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SOURCE.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 50 of the social services law is amended
    2  by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    3    (E)  A  COPY OF THE TEN-YEAR PLAN AND GUIDELINES DEVELOPED BY A SOCIAL
    4  SERVICES DISTRICT HOMELESS TASK FORCE ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
    5  FIFTY-A OF THIS TITLE.
    6    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    7  it  shall have become a law; provided however, that effective immediate-
    8  ly, the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance  is  author-
    9  ized  and  directed  to  add, amend and/or repeal any rule or regulation
   10  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date.