Bill Text: NY A06652 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6652 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to residential services for pregnant victims of domestic violence; provides that certain pregnant victims of domestic violence may stay at an emergency shelter for up to nine months.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-10 - enacting clause stricken [A06652 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06652-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6652
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 12, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. BOYLAND -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  residential
         services for pregnant victims of domestic violence
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 459-b of the social services  law,  as  amended  by
    2  chapter 459 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  459-b.  Residential  services  for victims of domestic violence. In
    4  accordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter and the
    5  regulations of the office of children  and  family  services,  a  social
    6  services  district shall offer and provide necessary and available emer-
    7  gency shelter and services for  up  to  ninety  days  at  a  residential
    8  program  for  victims  of  domestic  violence  to  a  victim of domestic
    9  violence who was residing in the social services district at the time of
   10  the alleged domestic violence whether or not such victim is eligible for
   11  public assistance. Two forty-five day extensions of necessary and avail-
   12  able emergency shelter may be granted beyond the maximum length of  stay
   13  at  a residential program for victims of domestic violence for residents
   14  who continue to be in need of emergency services and temporary  shelter.
   15  A  VICTIM  OF  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  WHO  IS  PREGNANT DURING THE TIME SHE
   16  UTILIZES SUCH EMERGENCY SHELTER OR SERVICES MAY BE GRANTED  UP  TO  NINE
   17  MONTHS  OF  NECESSARY AND AVAILABLE EMERGENCY SHELTER BEYOND THE MAXIMUM
   18  LENGTH OF STAY AT A RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
   19  PROVIDED THAT SUCH PREGNANT WOMAN IS IN  PURSUIT  OF  AN  EDUCATION  AND
   20  TRAINING TO REACH INDEPENDENT STATUS.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   22  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   23  ly  the  commissioner  of children and family services is authorized and
   24  directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as  he  or  she  deems
   25  necessary  to  implement  the  provisions  of  this act on or before its
   26  effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10015-01-3