STATE OF NEW YORK
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4474
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 5, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, CLEARE, COMRIE, HINCHEY, PARKER, SALAZAR --
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 quar-
terly inspections of homeless shelters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 20 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. The office of temporary and disability assistance shall promulgate
4 rules and regulations requiring that the department, or a local social
5 services district where appropriate, shall each year conduct a minimum
6 of four full unannounced inspections of each facility which is used to
7 shelter homeless persons within the state, with at least one full
8 inspection performed each quarter.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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