Requires local social services districts distribute shelter information specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons on the district's website and as pamphlets at intake shelters.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5925
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 local
social services districts distribute shelter information specifically
for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming
persons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
3 (m) require all local social services districts to provide information
4 including resources and accommodations for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
5 transgender, and gender non-conforming individuals on their shelter
6 webpage and as a pamphlet provided to intake shelters. Such information
7 shall:
8 (i) specify where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender
9 non-conforming individuals should go if they are looking to be housed in
10 a shelter.
11 (ii) include whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender
12 non-conforming shelter beds are an option in their municipality and, if
13 there are no such shelter beds, the agency shall list resources of near-
14 by non-profits or other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender
15 non-conforming shelter options within the municipality.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04143-01-5
