STATE OF NEW YORK
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813
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the maximum age at
which a homeless youth can continue to receive shelter services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 532-d of the
2 executive law, as amended by section 5 of part M of chapter 56 of the
3 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) A homeless youth who entered a transitional independent living
5 program under the age of [twenty-one] twenty-four may continue to
6 receive shelter services in such program beyond the applicable period
7 authorized by paragraph (b) of this subdivision, if the municipality has
8 notified the office of children and family services in accordance with
9 clause (iv) of subparagraph three of paragraph a of subdivision two of
10 section four hundred twenty of this chapter;
11 § 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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