Provides internet access to all individuals receiving temporary housing assistance; provides that one hundred percent of the cost for the expense incurred for local social service districts to provide such internet access shall be reimbursed by the state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
November 6, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing inter-
net access to all individuals receiving temporary housing assistance
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 (l) to read as follows:
3 (l) require that each local social services district shall provide
4 internet access to all individuals receiving temporary housing assist-
5 ance in such district. For purposes of this subdivision, temporary hous-
6 ing assistance shall include but not be limited to, a family shelter, a
7 shelter for adults, a domestic violence shelter, a runaway and homeless
8 youth shelter, or a safe house for refugees.
9 § 2. Section 153 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
10 subdivision 13 to read as follows:
11 13. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, one
12 hundred percent of the cost for the expense incurred for local social
13 services districts to provide internet access as required by subdivision
14 (l) of section seventeen of this chapter shall be reimbursed by the
15 state.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
18 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
19 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
20 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17408-04-0
