Bill Text: NY S00673 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S00673 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00673-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 673 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring quar- terly inspections of homeless shelters The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 20 of the social services law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 9 to read as follows: 3 9. The office of temporary and disability assistance shall promulgate 4 rules and regulations requiring that the department, or a local social 5 services district where appropriate, shall each year conduct a minimum 6 of four full unannounced inspections of each facility which is used to 7 shelter homeless persons within the state, with at least one full 8 inspection performed each quarter. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01570-01-1
