Bill Text: NY S02674 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the maximum age at which a homeless youth can continue to receive shelter services; raises the age from twenty-one to twenty-four.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S02674 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02674-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2674

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KRUEGER, RAMOS --
          read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  the  maximum  age  at
          which a homeless youth can continue to receive shelter services

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1  of  section  532-d  of  the
     2  executive  law,  as  amended by section 5 of part M of chapter 56 of the
     3  laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) A homeless youth who entered  a  transitional  independent  living
     5  program  under  the  age  of  [twenty-one]  twenty-four  may continue to
     6  receive shelter services in such program beyond  the  applicable  period
     7  authorized by paragraph (b) of this subdivision, if the municipality has
     8  notified  the  office of children and family services in accordance with
     9  clause (iv) of subparagraph three of paragraph a of subdivision  two  of
    10  section four hundred twenty of this chapter;
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06180-01-3