Assembly Bill A10659

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring social distancing room configurations in homeless housing

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10659 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8567
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 2-B §53, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A334, S2919

2019-A10659 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires social distancing room configurations in new homeless housing constructions; any individual placed in a hotel, motel or apartment by local social services in response to COVID-19 shall not be permitted to return until such housing has ensured appropriate distancing between beds of at least six-feet.

2019-A10659 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10659
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced   by   COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at  request  of  M.  of  A.
   Pheffer Amato) -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Social
   Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring social
   distancing room configurations in homeless housing
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  article
 2-B to read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 2-B
             ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO HOMELESS HOUSING
 SECTION 53. HOMELESS HOUSING; ROOM CONFIGURATION.
   § 53. HOMELESS HOUSING; ROOM CONFIGURATION. 1. ON AND AFTER THE EFFEC-
 TIVE  DATE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  NO  HOMELESS  HOUSING CONSTRUCTION SHALL
 INCLUDE SINGLE ROOMS WITH BEDS FOR HOMELESS  INDIVIDUALS  PLACED  WITHIN
 SIX-FEET OF ONE ANOTHER.
   2.  ANY  INDIVIDUAL  PLACED  IN A HOTEL, MOTEL OR APARTMENT BY A LOCAL
 SOCIAL  SERVICE  OFFICE,  MUNICIPALITY,  NOT-FOR-PROFIT  CORPORATION  OR
 SUBSIDIARY  THEREOF  AS  A RESULT OF THE OUTBREAK OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE
 2019 (COVID-19) SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO A  HOMELESS  HOUSING
 UNTIL  SUCH  HOUSING HAS ENSURED THE APPROPRIATE DISTANCING BETWEEN BEDS
 OF AT LEAST SIX-FEET.
   3. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION:
   (A) "HOMELESS HOUSING" SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO  A  FAMILY
 SHELTER,  A  SHELTER  FOR ADULTS, A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER, A RUNAWAY
 AND HOMELESS YOUTH SHELTER, A SAFE HOUSE FOR REFUGEES, ANY OTHER  SUPER-
 VISED  PUBLICLY OR PRIVATELY OPERATED SHELTER DESIGNED TO PROVIDE TEMPO-
 RARY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OR ANY OTHER LOCATION WHERE  HOMELESS  INDIVID-
 UALS AND FAMILIES MAY BE RESIDING; AND
   (B)  "HOMELESS  PERSON" SHALL MEAN AN UNDOMICILED PERSON WHO IS UNABLE
 TO SECURE PERMANENT AND STABLE HOUSING WITHOUT  SPECIAL  ASSISTANCE,  AS
 DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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