S02086 Summary:

BILL NOS02086
 
SAME ASSAME AS A01493
 
SPONSORPARKER
 
COSPNSRDILAN, DUANE, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, ONORATO, PERKINS, SAMPSON, SAVINO, SCHNEIDERMAN, SERRANO
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add S50-a, amd S50, Soc Serv L
 
Requires social service 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.
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S02086 Actions:

BILL NOS02086
 
02/11/2009REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES
01/06/2010REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES
03/09/2010REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
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S02086 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S02086 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2086
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 11, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. PARKER, DILAN, DUANE, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, ONORATO,
          SAMPSON, SAVINO, SCHNEIDERMAN,  SERRANO  --  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.
                                                                   LBD00461-01-9

        S. 2086                             2
 
     1    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 50 of the social services law is amended
     2  by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e)  a  copy of the ten-year plan and guidelines developed by a social

     4  services district homeless task force established  pursuant  to  section
     5  fifty-a of this title.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it  shall have become a law; provided however, that effective immediate-
     8  ly, the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance  is  author-
     9  ized  and  directed  to  add, amend and/or repeal any rule or regulation
    10  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date.
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