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Assembly Bill A3517

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the office of children and family services to maintain a database of available beds for runaway and/or homeless youth

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2021-A3517 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S116
Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §532-e, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A6549, S7737

2021-A3517 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the office of children and family services to work with service providers to gather information to create and maintain a publicly searchable database of available beds at residential facilities currently available for runaway and/or homeless youth.

2021-A3517 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3517
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring  the  office
   of  children  and  family services to maintain a database of available
   beds for runaway and/or homeless youth

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  8  of  section 532-e of the executive law is
 renumbered subdivision 9.
   § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 7 of section 532-e of the  executive
 law,  as  added by chapter 361 of the laws of 2019, is amended and a new
 subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
   (e) how to address the families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and  trans-
 gender youth; [and]
   8.  WORK  WITH  SERVICE  PROVIDERS TO GATHER INFORMATION TO CREATE AND
 MAINTAIN A PUBLICLY SEARCHABLE DATABASE OF AVAILABLE BEDS AT RESIDENTIAL
 FACILITIES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR RUNAWAY AND/OR HOMELESS YOUTH ON  THE
 OFFICE'S  WEBSITE  AND  ON  A COMPANION PHONE APPLICATION. SUCH DATABASE
 SHALL BE UPDATED IN REAL TIME AND SHALL PROVIDE AND BE SEARCHABLE BY THE
 FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
   (A) THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE FACILITY;
   (B) THE NUMBER OF BEDS AVAILABLE AT THE FACILITY;
   (C) THE AGE RANGE ALLOWABLE FOR THE AVAILABLE BED;
   (D) THE LENGTH OF TIME THE RUNAWAY AND/OR HOMELESS YOUTH MAY  STAY  AT
 THE FACILITY; AND
   (E) THE SERVICES OFFERED AT THE FACILITY; AND
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00920-01-1

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