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