Requires social services 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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3534
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, WRIGHT, JAFFEE, PEOPLES-STOKES, AUBRY,
CRESPO, ROBERTS, COOK, ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
GLICK, ROBINSON, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred 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. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 50 of the
2 social services law as amended by chapter 204 of the laws of 1998, are
3 amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows:
4 (c) a description of the manner in which coordination with other
5 federal, state, local and privately funded services will be achieved;
6 [and]
7 (d) a description of how the services will be designed to assist
8 households transition from a reliance on outside interventions and move
9 toward housing stability and economic self reliance[.]; and
10 (e) a copy of the ten-year plan and guidelines developed by a social
11 services district homeless task force established pursuant to section
12 fifty-a of this title.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law; provided however, that effective immediate-
15 ly, the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance is author-
16 ized and directed to add, amend and/or repeal any rule or regulation
17 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date.
