NY State Senate Bill 2021-S2919

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 05, 2022	referred to social services
Jan 26, 2021	referred to social services

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2021-S2919 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A334
Current Committee:: Senate Social Services
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Add Art 2-B §53, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S8567, A10659

2021-S2919 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires social distancing room configurations in new homeless housing constructions; provides 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.

2021-S2919 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2919

SPONSOR: ADDABBO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring social
distancing room configurations in homeless housing

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To require social distancing room configurations in homeless housing.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new article
2-B to require that homeless housing configurations not contain beds
within six feet of each other, and that any homeless resident that had
to be placed in a. commercial hotel as a result of their previous resi-
dence not being able to space beds further than six feet apart cannot
return to their previous shelter that does allow for that space.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of New Yorkers in the homeless
shelter system are being removed from their shelters and into commercial
hotels to ensure that they can maintain social distancing, and limit the
spread of the COVID-19 virus. However, this cannot last forever as
commercial hotels will return to regular business, and we will have to
return these residents back to their shelters. If the residents are sent
back to shelters that use dormitory style housing and cannot provide six
feet of distance between each bed, then we are putting the residents and
the surrounding community at risk of contracting and spreading this
illness, and other airborne illnesses. This pandemic raised the issue
that dormitory style housing leaves residents vulnerable to contracting
illnesses and can cause harm-to-their-communities. These residents must
return to shelters that do not utilize dormitory style housing and
convert their living spaces to safe spaces that can adhere to social
distancing.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: S. 8561 - Referred to Senate Rules.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

N/A

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Ninety days after it is signed into law.

2021-S2919 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2919
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 26, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed 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
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04194-01-1

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Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Social Services Committee

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