Bill Text: NY S07737 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the office of children and family services to work with service providers to gather information to create and maintain a publicly searchable database of available beds at residential facilities currently available for runaway and/or homeless youth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-12 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S07737 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07737-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7737 IN SENATE February 12, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- 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 requiring the office of children and family services to maintain a database of available beds for runaway and/or homeless youth The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 532-e of the executive law is 2 renumbered subdivision 9. 3 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 7 of section 532-e of the executive 4 law, as added by chapter 361 of the laws of 2019, is amended and a new 5 subdivision 8 is added to read as follows: 6 (e) how to address the families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans- 7 gender youth; [and] 8 8. work with service providers to gather information to create and 9 maintain a publicly searchable database of available beds at residential 10 facilities currently available for runaway and/or homeless youth on the 11 office's website and on a companion phone application. Such database 12 shall be updated in real time and shall provide and be searchable by the 13 following information: 14 (a) the name and address of the facility; 15 (b) the number of beds available at the facility; 16 (c) the age range allowable for the available bed; 17 (d) the length of time the runaway and/or homeless youth may stay at 18 the facility; and 19 (e) the services offered at the facility; and 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09709-03-0