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                                  9867

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 18, 2012
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Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
  commissioner of temporary and disability assistance to submit an annu-
  al  report  detailing  local  social  services  districts  efforts  to
  prevent, identify, and address homelessness

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision (d) of section 17 of the social services law,
as amended by chapter 749 of the laws of 1989, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (d)  submit an annual report to the governor and the legislature prior
to the fifteenth day of December of each year. Such annual report  shall
include  the  following: the affairs of the department and the status of
welfare programs in the state with recommendations for  the  improvement
and  development  of welfare programs; a report on the department's fair
hearing system, as required by section twenty-two  of  this  article;  a
written  evaluation  report on the delivery of child welfare services in
the state, as required by subdivision five of section four hundred seven
of this chapter; a report of the operations of the state central  regis-
ter  of child abuse and maltreatment and the various local child protec-
tive services, as required by section four hundred  twenty-six  of  this
chapter;  a report on the number and status and the findings of investi-
gations of deaths of children pursuant to subdivision  five  of  section
twenty  of this chapter; a report on the progress of the development and
operation of the child care review system, as  required  by  subdivision
nine  of  section  four  hundred  forty-two  of this chapter; commencing
before December fifteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-four and  terminating
on  December  fifteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-nine, a progress report
on the planning and  implementation  of  the  teenage  services  act  as
required  by  the  provisions  of  section four hundred nine-m of [title
four-B of] this chapter; an analysis of the information contained in the
registry of community facilities, as required by paragraph (b) of subdi-
vision two of section four hundred sixty-three-a of this chapter;  [and]

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

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a  report  on the operation of the child support enforcement program, as
required by chapter six hundred eighty-five  of  the  laws  of  nineteen
hundred  seventy-five;  AND A REPORT OF THE EFFORTS OF EACH LOCAL SOCIAL
SERVICES DISTRICT TO IDENTIFY, PREVENT, AND ADDRESS THEIR HOMELESS POPU-
LATION,  INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROJECTS FUNDED BY FEDERAL, STATE,
MUNICIPAL, OR PRIVATE DOLLARS;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.