Bill Text: NY A05714 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires social services districts to establish a homeless housing task force for purposes of developing a ten-year plan and guidelines to address long-term and short-term housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A05714 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05714-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5714 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, JAFFEE, PEOPLES-STOKES, AUBRY, CRESPO, COOK, L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the creation by each social services district of a homeless housing task force 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 50-a to read as follows: 3 § 50-a. Homeless housing task force. 1. Each social services district 4 in the state shall create a homeless housing task force to develop a 5 ten-year homeless housing plan addressing short-term and long-term hous- 6 ing for homeless persons. Such plan shall include guidelines for emer- 7 gency shelters; short-term housing; temporary encampments; supportive 8 housing for chronically homeless persons; long-term housing; standards 9 for health and safety; and public notice regarding location of facili- 10 ties. 11 2. Membership on the task force shall include representatives of the 12 counties, cities, towns, housing authorities, civil and faith organiza- 13 tions, schools, community networks, human services providers, law 14 enforcement personnel, substance abuse treatment providers, mental 15 health care providers, emergency health care providers, businesses, 16 at-large representatives of the community, and a homeless or formerly 17 homeless individual. 18 3. Any plan and guidelines developed by a social services district 19 homeless housing task force shall be consistent with regulations appli- 20 cable to projects promulgated pursuant to title one of this article. 21 4. Each district homeless housing task force shall make recommenda- 22 tions based on the plan and guidelines regarding the allocation of funds 23 received from any public or private source. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07720-01-9A. 5714 2 1 § 2. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 50 of the 2 social services law, as amended by chapter 204 of the laws of 1998, are 3 amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows: 4 (c) a description of the manner in which coordination with other 5 federal, state, local and privately funded services will be achieved; 6 [and] 7 (d) a description of how the services will be designed to assist 8 households transition from a reliance on outside interventions and move 9 toward housing stability and economic self reliance[.]; and 10 (e) a copy of the ten-year plan and guidelines developed by a social 11 services district homeless task force established pursuant to section 12 fifty-a of this title. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 16 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 17 completed on or before such effective date.