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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         2651--B
                                                                Cal. No. 403
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 19, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JACOBS,  TITONE,  P. RIVERA,  TITUS, JAFFEE,
          JEFFRIES, PAULIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CASTELLI,  McENENY,
          MILLMAN, RAIA, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Social  Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in

          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- advanced to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place on the order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social services law, in relation to residential
          services for victims of domestic violence
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 459-b of the social services law, as added by chap-
     2  ter 169 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  459-b.  Residential  services  for victims of domestic violence. In
     4  accordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter and the

     5  regulations of the [department] office of children and family  services,
     6  a  social services district shall offer and provide necessary and avail-
     7  able emergency shelter and services for up to ninety days at a  residen-
     8  tial  program  for  victims of domestic violence to a victim of domestic
     9  violence who was residing in the social services district at the time of
    10  the alleged domestic violence whether or not such victim is eligible for
    11  public assistance.   Two forty-five  day  extensions  of  necessary  and
    12  available  emergency shelter may be granted beyond the maximum length of
    13  stay at a residential program for victims of domestic violence for resi-
    14  dents who continue to be in need of  emergency  services  and  temporary
    15  shelter.

    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    18  ly  the  commissioner  of children and family services is authorized and
    19  directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as  he  or  she  deems
    20  necessary  to  implement  the  provisions  of  this act on or before its
    21  effective date.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04266-05-2