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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2086
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 11, 2009
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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.
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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.
