Bill Text: NY A01258 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner to collect information regarding the homeless population during a state disaster emergency in publicly funded shelters, residential programs for victims of domestic violence, and residential programs for runaway and homeless youth, and publish a report containing such information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-25 - substituted by s873 [A01258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01258-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1258

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services

        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to requiring the
          commissioner to prepare a report of the homeless population  during  a
          state  disaster  emergency  in  publicly  funded shelters, residential
          programs for victims of domestic violence,  and  residential  programs
          for runaway and homeless youth

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (d-1) of section 17 of the social services law,
     2  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the  social  services
     3  law  relating  to  requiring the commissioner to prepare a report of the
     4  sheltered and unsheltered homeless population during  a  state  disaster
     5  emergency,  as  proposed  in  legislative bills numbers S. 8643-A and A.
     6  10566-A, is amended to read as follows:
     7    (d-1)(1) in consultation with each local health  department  and  each
     8  social services district in the county in which [the homeless] a public-
     9  ly  funded  shelter  is  located,  the commissioner of the department of
    10  health, the commissioner of the office of children and family  services,
    11  the  [commissioners]  commissioner  of  the  New York city department of
    12  homeless services, and the commissioner of the New York city  department
    13  of health and mental hygiene, [shall collect] conduct a review of infor-
    14  mation,  to  the  extent  such  information is known and available after
    15  making all diligent efforts, regarding the [sheltered  and  unsheltered]
    16  homeless population in publicly funded shelters, during a state disaster
    17  emergency,  declared  pursuant to executive order two hundred two of two
    18  thousand twenty or any extension or subsequent executive order issued in
    19  response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, including but not
    20  limited to, the following information:
    21    (i) the number of confirmed infected individuals;
    22    (ii) the number of hospitalizations;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07158-01-1
        A. 1258                             2

     1    (iii) the number of deaths;
     2    (iv)  information  regarding the individual, if known[;]: (a) age; (b)
     3  race; (c) family composition; (d) shelter status; (e)  type  of  shelter
     4  including:  family  shelter, a shelter for adults, a hotel, an emergency
     5  apartment, a domestic violence shelter, a  runaway  and  homeless  youth
     6  shelter,  or [as] a safe house for refugees; (f) any known risk factors;
     7  and (g) any other information the office deems appropriate;
     8    (v) with regard to individuals residing in a residential  program  for
     9  victims of domestic violence or for runaway and homeless youth, informa-
    10  tion  regarding  the  average  number  of  individuals  reported  with a
    11  confirmed infection, the number and percentage  of  programs  struggling
    12  with an outbreak, and the number and percentage of residents impacted in
    13  those programs compared to the program's maximum capacity.
    14    (2)    in  consultation with the commissioner of health, utilizing the
    15  information [collected] reviewed  pursuant  to  paragraph  (1)  of  this
    16  subdivision  and  to  the  extent  that confidentiality requirements set
    17  forth in law and regulation are maintained[,  the  commissioners  shall]
    18  publish  a  report containing such information aggregated by county [and
    19  post it on the website of each respective agency]. When  confidentiality
    20  requirements  set forth in law and regulation prevent the publication of
    21  information aggregated by county, the report shall contain such informa-
    22  tion aggregated  for  multiple  counties  and  organized  by  geographic
    23  region. Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, for resi-
    24  dential  programs for victims of domestic violence and runaway and home-
    25  less youth, reported information shall  be  aggregated  on  a  statewide
    26  basis.
    27    (3)  post the report on the office of temporary and disability assist-
    28  ance's website within sixty days of the effective date of this paragraph
    29  and update the report at least every three months thereafter during  the
    30  state  disaster  emergency  declared  pursuant  to  executive  order two
    31  hundred two of two thousand twenty or any extension or subsequent execu-
    32  tive order issued  in  response  to  the  novel  coronavirus  (COVID-19)
    33  pandemic.
    34    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    35  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the social services law
    36  relating to requiring the commissioner to prepare a report of the  shel-
    37  tered  and unsheltered homeless population during a state disaster emer-
    38  gency, as proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  8643-A  and  A.
    39  10566-A, takes effect.