Miller MG, Jean-Pierre, Rivera, Cruz, Dilan, Arroyo, D'Urso
MLTSPNSR
Crespo
Amd §17, Soc Serv L
Prohibits homeless shelters from denying shelter to a person because the person is considered to have other housing available unless the department of social services determines that such other housing is actually available, would not cause overcrowding, or put any person at unreasonable health or safety risk.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6648
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 14, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. DE LA ROSA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to homeless persons
seeking shelter
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 (k-1) to read as follows:
3 (k-1) ensure the following: (i) that no social services district or
4 established or temporary operator of an emergency shelter denies
5 services to a person seeking shelter on the grounds that the person
6 seeking shelter has other housing available unless the property owner or
7 tenant, as defined in section two hundred thirty-five-f of the real
8 property law, makes an affirmative declaration that the person seeking
9 shelter is welcome to stay with such property owner or tenant; (ii) that
10 such occupancy will not result in a situation where any person occupying
11 the home has fewer than eighty square feet of livable area; and (iii)
12 that such occupancy would not put any person staying in the home at an
13 unreasonable health or safety risk.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10696-01-9
