Bill Text: NY S08567 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires social distancing room configurations in new homeless housing constructions; any individual placed in a hotel, motel or apartment by local social services in response to COVID-19 shall not be permitted to return until such housing has ensured appropriate distancing between beds of at least six-feet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-16 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08567 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S08567-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8567 IN SENATE June 16, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring social distancing room configurations in homeless housing 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 article 2 2-B to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 2-B 4 ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO HOMELESS HOUSING 5 Section 53. Homeless housing; room configuration. 6 § 53. Homeless housing; room configuration. 1. On and after the effec- 7 tive date of this section, no homeless housing construction shall 8 include single rooms with beds for homeless individuals placed within 9 six-feet of one another. 10 2. Any individual placed in a hotel, motel or apartment by a local 11 social service office, municipality, not-for-profit corporation or 12 subsidiary thereof as a result of the outbreak of coronavirus disease 13 2019 (COVID-19) shall not be permitted to return to a homeless housing 14 until such housing has ensured the appropriate distancing between beds 15 of at least six-feet. 16 3. For the purpose of this section: 17 (a) "Homeless housing" shall include, but not be limited to a family 18 shelter, a shelter for adults, a domestic violence shelter, a runaway 19 and homeless youth shelter, a safe house for refugees, any other super- 20 vised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide tempo- 21 rary living arrangements or any other location where homeless individ- 22 uals and families may be residing; and 23 (b) "Homeless person" shall mean an undomiciled person who is unable 24 to secure permanent and stable housing without special assistance, as 25 determined by the commissioner. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 27 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16548-01-0