Bill Text: NY S00116 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of children and family services to work with service providers to gather information to create and maintain a publicly searchable database of available beds at residential facilities currently available for runaway and/or homeless youth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S00116 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00116-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           116

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring  the  office
          of  children  and  family services to maintain a database of available
          beds for runaway and/or homeless youth

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  8  of  section 532-e of the executive law is
     2  renumbered subdivision 9.
     3    § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 7 of section 532-e of the  executive
     4  law,  as  added by chapter 361 of the laws of 2019, is amended and a new
     5  subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
     6    (e) how to address the families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and  trans-
     7  gender youth; [and]
     8    8.  work  with  service  providers to gather information to create and
     9  maintain a publicly searchable database of available beds at residential
    10  facilities currently available for runaway and/or homeless youth on  the
    11  office's  website  and  on  a companion phone application. Such database
    12  shall be updated in real time and shall provide and be searchable by the
    13  following information:
    14    (a) the name and address of the facility;
    15    (b) the number of beds available at the facility;
    16    (c) the age range allowable for the available bed;
    17    (d) the length of time the runaway and/or homeless youth may  stay  at
    18  the facility; and
    19    (e) the services offered at the facility; and
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00920-01-1