Bill Text: NY A10659 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires social distancing room configurations in new homeless housing constructions; any individual placed in a hotel, motel or apartment by local social services in response to COVID-19 shall not be permitted to return until such housing has ensured appropriate distancing between beds of at least six-feet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-17 - referred to social services [A10659 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10659-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10659

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 17, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by   COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at  request  of  M.  of  A.
          Pheffer Amato) -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Social
          Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring social
          distancing room configurations in homeless housing

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

     1    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  article
     2  2-B to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 2-B
     4              ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO HOMELESS HOUSING
     5  Section 53. Homeless housing; room configuration.
     6    § 53. Homeless housing; room configuration. 1. On and after the effec-
     7  tive  date  of  this  section,  no  homeless  housing construction shall
     8  include single rooms with beds for homeless  individuals  placed  within
     9  six-feet of one another.
    10    2.  Any  individual  placed  in a hotel, motel or apartment by a local
    11  social  service  office,  municipality,  not-for-profit  corporation  or
    12  subsidiary  thereof  as  a result of the outbreak of coronavirus disease
    13  2019 (COVID-19) shall not be permitted to return to a  homeless  housing
    14  until  such  housing has ensured the appropriate distancing between beds
    15  of at least six-feet.
    16    3. For the purpose of this section:
    17    (a) "Homeless housing" shall include, but not be limited to  a  family
    18  shelter,  a  shelter  for adults, a domestic violence shelter, a runaway
    19  and homeless youth shelter, a safe house for refugees, any other  super-
    20  vised  publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide tempo-
    21  rary living arrangements or any other location where  homeless  individ-
    22  uals and families may be residing; and
    23    (b)  "Homeless  person" shall mean an undomiciled person who is unable
    24  to secure permanent and stable housing without  special  assistance,  as
    25  determined by the commissioner.
    26    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    27  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16548-01-0
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