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Assembly Bill A455

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires limit to maximum length of stay at residential program for victims of domestic violence

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2009-A455 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §459-b, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A2651

2009-A455 - Summary

Requires limit to maximum length of stay at residential program for victims of domestic violence to not less than 180 days.

2009-A455 - Sponsor Memo

2009-A455 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   455

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. JACOBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Social Services

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social services law, in relation to residential
  services for victims of domestic violence

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

  Section 1. Section 459-b of the social services law, as added by chap-
ter 169 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
  S  459-b.  Residential  services  for victims of domestic violence. In
accordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter and the
regulations of the [department] OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY  SERVICES,
a  social services district shall offer and provide necessary and avail-
able emergency shelter and services at a residential program for victims
of domestic violence to a victim of domestic violence who  was  residing
in  the  social  services  district  at the time of the alleged domestic
violence whether or not such victim is eligible for  public  assistance;
PROVIDED,  HOWEVER, THAT SUCH LAW, RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL NOT LIMIT
THE MAXIMUM LENGTH OF STAY OF VICTIMS AT SUCH  RESIDENTIAL  PROGRAMS  TO
LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02198-01-9

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2009-A455A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §459-b, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A2651

2009-A455A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires limit to maximum length of stay at residential program for victims of domestic violence to not less than 180 days.

2009-A455A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 455--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. JACOBS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WEIN-
  STEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services --
  recommitted to the Committee on Social  Services  in  accordance  with
  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social services law, in relation to residential
  services for victims of domestic violence

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

  Section 1. Section 459-b of the social services law, as added by chap-
ter 169 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
  S  459-b.  Residential  services  for victims of domestic violence. In
accordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter and the
regulations of the [department] OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY  SERVICES,
a  social services district shall offer and provide necessary and avail-
able emergency shelter and services FOR UP TO NINETY DAYS at a  residen-
tial  program  for  victims of domestic violence to a victim of domestic
violence who was residing in the social services district at the time of
the alleged domestic violence whether or not such victim is eligible for
public assistance; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH  LAW,  RULES  AND  REGU-
LATIONS  SHALL  PERMIT  UP TO TWO EXTENSIONS OF UP TO FORTY-FIVE DAYS OF
NECESSARY AND AVAILABLE EMERGENCY SHELTER AND SERVICES AT A  RESIDENTIAL
PROGRAM  FOR  VICTIMS  OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IF NEITHER THE RESIDENT, THE
SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT NOR THE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM IS ABLE  TO  SECURE
ALTERNATIVE HOUSING, AS DEFINED BY REGULATION, FOR THE RESIDENT AND SUCH
HOUSING IS NECESSARY.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law; provided, however,  that  effective  immediately  the
commissioner of the office of children and family services is authorized
and directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as he or she deems
necessary  to  implement  the  provisions  of  this act on or before its
effective date.

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