Bill Text: NY A10566 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner to collect information regarding the sheltered and unsheltered homeless population during a state disaster emergency and publish a report containing such information on the department's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - approval memo.37 [A10566 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10566-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10566--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 3, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
          commissioner  to  prepare  a  report  of the sheltered and unsheltered
          homeless population during a state disaster emergency

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

     1    Section  1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (d-1) to read as follows:
     3    (d-1)(1) in consultation with each  local  health  department  in  the
     4  county in which the homeless shelter is located, the commissioner of the
     5  department  of  health,  the commissioners of the department of homeless
     6  services, and the commissioner of the New York city department of health
     7  and mental hygiene, shall collect information  regarding  the  sheltered
     8  and  unsheltered homeless population, during a state disaster emergency,
     9  declared pursuant to executive order two hundred  two  of  two  thousand
    10  twenty in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, includ-
    11  ing but not limited to:
    12    (i) the number of confirmed infected individuals;
    13    (ii) the number of hospitalizations;
    14    (iii) the number of deaths;
    15    (iv)  information  regarding  the  individual,  if known; (a) age; (b)
    16  race; (c) family composition; (d) shelter status; (e)  type  of  shelter
    17  including:  family  shelter, a shelter for adults, a hotel, an emergency
    18  apartment, a domestic violence shelter, a  runaway  and  homeless  youth
    19  shelter,  or  as  a safe house for refugees; (f) any known risk factors;
    20  and (g) any other information the office deems appropriate.
    21    (2) utilizing the information collected pursuant to paragraph  (1)  of
    22  this  subdivision,  the  commissioners shall publish a report containing
    23  such information aggregated by county and post it on the website of each
    24  respective agency.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16493-02-0
        A. 10566--A                         2

     1    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  apply  retroac-
     2  tively  beginning March 7, 2020 and any time thereafter during the state
     3  disaster emergency declared pursuant to executive order 202 of  2020  in
     4  response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.