STATE OF NEW YORK
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3915
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring family
homeless shelters for ten or more families in the city of New York to
have a working kitchen in each individual housing unit
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 section
2 152-c to read as follows:
3 § 152-c. On-site working kitchens. In the city of New York any provid-
4 er of temporary housing assistance for ten or more families in a family
5 homeless shelter shall be required to have a working kitchen in each
6 individual housing unit. Such "working kitchen" shall be installed
7 within sixty days of the registration of the contract between the opera-
8 tor of such family homeless shelter and the city of New York. For the
9 purposes of this section, "working kitchen" shall mean an area in each
10 individual housing unit where food can be prepared and cooked. Such
11 working kitchen shall include, at a minimum, a sink, a refrigerator and
12 a double burner stove. If a provider of temporary family housing shel-
13 ter fails to meet the requirements set out in this section, it shall be
14 prohibited from accepting any new clients until such requirements are
15 met.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
18 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
19 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
20 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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