Bill Text: NY S06685 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the city of New York to consult with the community board of the district and all local elected officials where a proposed homeless shelter or use of commercial hotel space to shelter homeless individuals shall be located, at least three hundred sixty-five days beforehand.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CITIES [S06685 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06685-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6685--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    September 4, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to the placement of homeless shelters

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

     1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
     3    § 21-124.2 Placement of homeless shelters.   a.  The  city  shall  not
     4  propose the location of a homeless shelter or establish a homeless shel-
     5  ter  without consulting with the community board of the district and all
     6  local elected officials of the district  where  such  proposed  homeless
     7  shelter  shall be located at least three hundred sixty-five days before-
     8  hand.
     9    b. The city shall not plan to use over thirty percent of the rooms  in
    10  a  commercial  hotel,  or  pay for over twenty percent of the rooms in a
    11  commercial hotel, or reserve all the rooms on a floor  in  a  commercial
    12  hotel  for the purpose of providing shelter for homeless individuals, or
    13  change the use of an  existing  shelter,  without  consulting  with  the
    14  community  board  of the district and all local elected officials of the
    15  district where such commercial hotel is located at least  three  hundred
    16  sixty-five days beforehand.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13531-04-9