Bill Text: NY A02263 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the maximum age at which a homeless youth can continue to receive shelter services; raises the age from twenty-one to twenty-four.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2022-12-28 - tabled [A02263 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02263-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2263

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FERNANDEZ, REYES, FAHY, GRIFFIN, CRUZ, COOK,
          HEVESI, DAVILA, DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred 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.
                                                                   LBD02886-01-1