Bill Text: NY S02514 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S02514 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02514-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2514

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD06287-01-3