Bill Text: NY A08872 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the city of New York to consult with the community board of the district and all local elected officials where a proposed homeless shelter or use of commercial hotel space to shelter homeless individuals shall be located, at least three hundred sixty-five days beforehand.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to cities [A08872 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08872-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8872

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 18, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Cities

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation to the placement of homeless shelters

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

     1    Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
     2  by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
     3    §  21-124.2  Placement  of  homeless shelters.   a. The city shall not
     4  propose the location of a homeless shelter or establish a homeless shel-
     5  ter without consulting with the community board of the district and  all
     6  local  elected  officials  of  the district where such proposed homeless
     7  shelter shall be located at least three hundred sixty-five days  before-
     8  hand.
     9    b.  The city shall not plan to use over thirty percent of the rooms in
    10  a commercial hotel, or pay for over twenty percent of  the  rooms  in  a
    11  commercial  hotel,  or  reserve all the rooms on a floor in a commercial
    12  hotel for the purpose of providing shelter for homeless individuals,  or
    13  change  the  use  of  an  existing  shelter, without consulting with the
    14  community board of the district and all local elected officials  of  the
    15  district  where  such commercial hotel is located at least three hundred
    16  sixty-five days beforehand.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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