Relates to residential services for pregnant victims of domestic violence; provides that certain pregnant victims of domestic violence may stay at an emergency shelter for up to nine months.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6652
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 12, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. BOYLAND -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to residential
services for pregnant 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 amended by
2 chapter 459 of the laws of 2012, 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 office of children and family services, a social
6 services district shall offer and provide necessary and available emer-
7 gency shelter and services for up to ninety days at a residential
8 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 avail-
12 able emergency shelter may be granted beyond the maximum length of stay
13 at a residential program for victims of domestic violence for residents
14 who continue to be in need of emergency services and temporary shelter.
15 A victim of domestic violence who is pregnant during the time she
16 utilizes such emergency shelter or services may be granted up to nine
17 months of necessary and available emergency shelter beyond the maximum
18 length of stay at a residential program for victims of domestic violence
19 provided that such pregnant woman is in pursuit of an education and
20 training to reach independent status.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
22 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
23 ly the commissioner of children and family services is authorized and
24 directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as he or she deems
25 necessary to implement the provisions of this act on or before its
26 effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10015-01-3
