Bill Text: NY A09687 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the office of temporary disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to social services [A09687 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09687-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9687

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services

        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring quar-
          terly inspections of homeless shelters

          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. The office of temporary and disability assistance shall  promulgate
     4  rules  and  regulations requiring that the department, or a local social
     5  services district where appropriate, shall each year conduct  a  minimum
     6  of  four  full unannounced inspections of each facility which is used to
     7  shelter homeless persons within  the  state,  with  at  least  one  full
     8  inspection performed each quarter.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14361-01-9