Bill Text: NY S03255 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires social services districts to establish a homeless housing task force for purposes of developing a ten-year plan and guidelines to address long-term and short-term housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S03255 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03255-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3255 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 the creation by each social services district of a homeless housing task force 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 section 2 50-a to read as follows: 3 § 50-a. Homeless housing task force. 1. Each social services district 4 in the state shall create a homeless housing task force to develop a 5 ten-year homeless housing plan addressing short-term and long-term hous- 6 ing for homeless persons. Such plan shall include guidelines for emer- 7 gency shelters; short-term housing; temporary encampments; supportive 8 housing for chronically homeless persons; long-term housing; standards 9 for health and safety; and public notice regarding location of facili- 10 ties. 11 2. Membership on the task force shall include representatives of the 12 counties, cities, towns, housing authorities, civil and faith organiza- 13 tions, schools, community networks, human services providers, law 14 enforcement personnel, substance abuse treatment providers, mental 15 health care providers, emergency health care providers, businesses, 16 at-large representatives of the community, and a homeless or formerly 17 homeless individual. 18 3. Any plan and guidelines developed by a social services district 19 homeless housing task force shall be consistent with regulations appli- 20 cable to projects promulgated pursuant to title one of this article. 21 4. Each district homeless housing task force shall make recommenda- 22 tions based on the plan and guidelines regarding the allocation of funds 23 received from any public or private source. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07720-01-9S. 3255 2 1 § 2. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 50 of the 2 social services law, as amended by chapter 204 of the laws of 1998, are 3 amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows: 4 (c) a description of the manner in which coordination with other 5 federal, state, local and privately funded services will be achieved; 6 [and] 7 (d) a description of how the services will be designed to assist 8 households transition from a reliance on outside interventions and move 9 toward housing stability and economic self reliance[.]; and 10 (e) a copy of the ten-year plan and guidelines developed by a social 11 services district homeless task force established pursuant to section 12 fifty-a of this title. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 16 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 17 completed on or before such effective date.
