Bill Text: NY A03912 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; provides that one hundred percent of the cost for the expense incurred for local social service districts to provide such internet access shall be reimbursed by the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-11-17 - enacting clause stricken [A03912 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03912-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3912--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HEVESI,  GRIFFIN,  GUNTHER  -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Social Services -- committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing inter-
          net access to all individuals residing in temporary housing

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

     1    Section  1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
     3    (m) require that each local social  services  district  shall  provide
     4  internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing in such
     5  district.  For  purposes  of  this  subdivision, temporary housing shall
     6  include but not be limited to, a family shelter, a shelter for adults, a
     7  domestic violence shelter, a runaway and homeless youth  shelter,  or  a
     8  safe  house  for  refugees.  Each  local  social services district shall
     9  submit their plan to provide internet access pursuant to  this  subdivi-
    10  sion  to the department for oversight and approval within thirty days of
    11  the effective date of this act. Shelters shall implement and comply with
    12  such plans within eighteen months of such approval.
    13    § 2. Section 153 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
    14  subdivision 13 to read as follows:
    15    13. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to  the  contrary,  one
    16  hundred  percent  of  the cost for the expense incurred for local social
    17  services districts to provide internet access as required by subdivision
    18  (m) of section seventeen of this chapter  shall  be  reimbursed  by  the
    19  state.
    20    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    22  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    23  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    24  on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01779-04-1