Bill Text: NY A06982 | 2023-2024 | 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 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-09 - advanced to third reading cal.455 [A06982 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06982-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6982

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- 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.
                                                                   LBD06180-01-3