Requires certain entities to provide a website listing hotels and motels being used as homeless housing and lists the not-for-profit organizations who provide services at such homeless housing.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9075
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring
certain entities to provide a website listing hotels and motels being
used as homeless housing
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 article
2 2-B to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 2-B
4 ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO HOMELESS HOUSING
5 Section 53. Local homeless housing notification.
6 § 53. Local homeless housing notification. 1. Every local social
7 services office, municipality, not-for-profit corporation or subsidiary
8 thereof who contracts with a hotel, motel or other similar establishment
9 to provide housing to homeless persons shall make publicly available on
10 the internet website of such local social services office, municipality,
11 not-for-profit corporation or subsidiary a list of every hotel, motel or
12 similar establishment under contract to provide housing to homeless
13 persons, the duration of such contract and the value of such contract.
14 2. Each local social services office, municipality, not-for-profit
15 corporation or subsidiary thereof shall make publicly available on their
16 internet website information regarding any contracts with a not-for-pro-
17 fit organization, and if applicable any subcontractor of the not-for-
18 profit organization, who provide services at such hotel, motel or simi-
19 lar establishment being used as homeless housing. Such information shall
20 include:
21 (a) The name of such not-for-profit organization and if applicable the
22 name of any subcontractor of the not-for-profit organization;
23 (b) The service or services being provided by such not-for-profit
24 organization and if applicable the service or services being provided by
25 any subcontractor of the not-for-profit organization at such hotel,
26 motel or similar establishment;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c) The duration of such contract between the local social services
2 office, municipality, not-for-profit corporation or subsidiary and the
3 not-for-profit organization, and if applicable any subcontractor of the
4 not-for-profit organization; and
5 (d) The value of such contract between the local social services
6 office, municipality, not-for-profit corporation or subsidiary and the
7 not-for-profit organization, and if applicable any subcontractor of the
8 not-for-profit organization, for such services.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
