Bill Text: NY S02347 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires social services districts to establish a homeless housing task force for purposes of developing a ten-year plan and guidelines to address long-term and short-term housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S02347 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02347-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2347
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 the creation  by
          each social services district of a homeless housing task force
          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  section
     2  50-a to read as follows:
     3    §  50-a. Homeless housing task force. 1. Each social services district
     4  in the state shall create a homeless housing task  force  to  develop  a
     5  ten-year homeless housing plan addressing short-term and long-term hous-
     6  ing  for  homeless persons. Such plan shall include guidelines for emer-
     7  gency shelters; short-term housing;  temporary  encampments;  supportive
     8  housing  for  chronically homeless persons; long-term housing; standards
     9  for health and safety; and public notice regarding location  of  facili-
    10  ties.
    11    2.  Membership  on the task force shall include representatives of the
    12  counties, cities, towns, housing authorities, civil and faith  organiza-
    13  tions,  schools,  community  networks,  human  services  providers,  law
    14  enforcement  personnel,  substance  abuse  treatment  providers,  mental
    15  health  care  providers,  emergency  health  care providers, businesses,
    16  at-large representatives of the community, and a  homeless  or  formerly
    17  homeless individual.
    18    3.  Any  plan  and  guidelines developed by a social services district
    19  homeless housing task force shall be consistent with regulations  appli-
    20  cable to projects promulgated pursuant to title one of this article.
    21    4.  Each  district  homeless housing task force shall make recommenda-
    22  tions based on the plan and guidelines regarding the allocation of funds
    23  received from any public or private source.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02802-01-7
        S. 2347                             2
     1    § 2. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2  of  section  50  of  the
     2  social  services law, as amended by chapter 204 of the laws of 1998, are
     3  amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows:
     4    (c)  a  description  of  the  manner  in which coordination with other
     5  federal, state, local and privately funded services  will  be  achieved;
     6  [and]
     7    (d)  a  description  of  how  the  services will be designed to assist
     8  households transition from a reliance on outside interventions and  move
     9  toward housing stability and economic self reliance[.]; and
    10    (e)  a  copy of the ten-year plan and guidelines developed by a social
    11  services district homeless task force established  pursuant  to  section
    12  fifty-a of this title.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it  shall have become a law; provided however, that effective immediate-
    15  ly, the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance  is  author-
    16  ized  and  directed  to  add, amend and/or repeal any rule or regulation
    17  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date.