Bill Text: NY S02919 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires social distancing room configurations in new homeless housing constructions; provides 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 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S02919 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02919-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2919

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO, RAMOS -- 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 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.
                                                                   LBD04194-01-1