Bill Text: NY A08252 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of social services to establish a centralized homelessness crisis response data system through which state agencies, local governmental entities, including law enforcement agencies, court systems, school districts, and emergency service providers, and other relevant persons are able to share and access information related to individuals who experience chronic homelessness in order to connect or refer such individuals to services including affordable housing opportunities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to social services [A08252 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08252-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8252

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 10, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RODRIGUEZ  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  directing  the
          department  of social services to establish a centralized homelessness
          crisis response data system

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 20 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9. (a) The  department  shall  establish  a  centralized  homelessness
     4  crisis  response data system through which state agencies, local govern-
     5  mental entities, including  law  enforcement  agencies,  court  systems,
     6  school  districts,  and  emergency service providers, and other relevant
     7  persons, as determined by the department, are able to share  and  access
     8  information  related  to individuals who experience chronic homelessness
     9  in order to connect or refer  such  individuals  to  services  including
    10  affordable housing opportunities.
    11    (b)  In  developing such centralized homelessness crisis response data
    12  system the department shall:
    13    (i) consult with the entities  described  in  paragraph  (a)  of  this
    14  subdivision  to  determine  the  challenges  faced  by  such entities in
    15  addressing chronic homelessness and how best to improve the response  to
    16  those challenges; and
    17    (ii)  enter into data sharing agreements as necessary for the exchange
    18  of information relating to individuals experiencing chronic homelessness
    19  through the centralized homelessness crisis response data system.
    20    (c) The centralized homelessness crisis response  data  system  estab-
    21  lished under this section shall:
    22    (i)  to the extent permitted by a data sharing agreement, collect data
    23  from other homeless crisis response systems maintained  or  operated  by
    24  other state entities; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13078-01-9
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     1    (ii)  collect,  aggregate,  analyze and share homelessness information
     2  submitted to the centralized homelessness crisis  response  data  system
     3  with  entities  that have access to the system pursuant to paragraph (a)
     4  of this subdivision.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.