Directs the department of social services to establish a centralized homelessness crisis response data system through which state agencies, local governmental entities, including law enforcement agencies, court systems, school districts, and emergency service providers, and other relevant persons are able to share and access information related to individuals who experience chronic homelessness in order to connect or refer such individuals to services including affordable housing opportunities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to directing the
department of social services to establish a centralized homelessness
crisis response data system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 20 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. (a) The department shall establish a centralized homelessness
4 crisis response data system through which state agencies, local govern-
5 mental entities, including law enforcement agencies, court systems,
6 school districts, and emergency service providers, and other relevant
7 persons, as determined by the department, are able to share and access
8 information related to individuals who experience chronic homelessness
9 in order to connect or refer such individuals to services including
10 affordable housing opportunities.
11 (b) In developing such centralized homelessness crisis response data
12 system the department shall:
13 (i) consult with the entities described in paragraph (a) of this
14 subdivision to determine the challenges faced by such entities in
15 addressing chronic homelessness and how best to improve the response to
16 those challenges; and
17 (ii) enter into data sharing agreements as necessary for the exchange
18 of information relating to individuals experiencing chronic homelessness
19 through the centralized homelessness crisis response data system.
20 (c) The centralized homelessness crisis response data system estab-
21 lished under this section shall:
22 (i) to the extent permitted by a data sharing agreement, collect data
23 from other homeless crisis response systems maintained or operated by
24 other state entities; and
25 (ii) collect, aggregate, analyze and share homelessness information
26 submitted to the centralized homelessness crisis response data system
27 with entities that have access to the system pursuant to paragraph (a)
28 of this subdivision.
29 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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