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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10566

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 3, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of 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  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  as defined in section twenty of the executive  law,  including  but  not
    10  limited to:
    11    (i) the number of confirmed infected individuals;
    12    (ii) the number of hospitalizations;
    13    (iii) the number of deaths;
    14    (iv)  information  regarding  the  individual,  if known; (a) age; (b)
    15  race; (c) family composition; (d) shelter status; (e)  type  of  shelter
    16  including:  family  shelter, a shelter for adults, a hotel, an emergency
    17  apartment, a domestic violence shelter, a  runaway  and  homeless  youth
    18  shelter,  or  as  a safe house for refugees; (f) any known risk factors;
    19  and (g) any other information the office deems appropriate.
    20    (2) utilizing the information collected pursuant to paragraph  (1)  of
    21  this  subdivision,  the  commissioners shall publish a report containing
    22  such information aggregated by county and post it on the website of each
    23  respective agency.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16493-01-0