Requires the office of children and family services to work with service providers to gather information to create and maintain a publicly searchable database of available beds at residential facilities currently available for runaway and/or homeless youth.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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116
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the office
of children and family services to maintain a database of available
beds for runaway and/or homeless youth
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 532-e of the executive law is
2 renumbered subdivision 9.
3 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 7 of section 532-e of the executive
4 law, as added by chapter 361 of the laws of 2019, is amended and a new
5 subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
6 (e) how to address the families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-
7 gender youth; [and]
8 8. work with service providers to gather information to create and
9 maintain a publicly searchable database of available beds at residential
10 facilities currently available for runaway and/or homeless youth on the
11 office's website and on a companion phone application. Such database
12 shall be updated in real time and shall provide and be searchable by the
13 following information:
14 (a) the name and address of the facility;
15 (b) the number of beds available at the facility;
16 (c) the age range allowable for the available bed;
17 (d) the length of time the runaway and/or homeless youth may stay at
18 the facility; and
19 (e) the services offered at the facility; and
20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00920-01-1
