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Assembly Bill A6982

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the maximum age at which a homeless youth can continue to receive shelter services

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2023-A6982 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2674
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §532-d, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11338
2019-2020: A2762, S4074
2021-2022: A2263, S813

2023-A6982 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the maximum age at which a homeless youth can continue to receive shelter services; raises the age from twenty-one to twenty-four.

2023-A6982 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6982
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  the  maximum  age  at
   which a homeless youth can continue to receive shelter services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1  of  section  532-d  of  the
 executive  law,  as  amended by section 5 of part M of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) A homeless youth who entered  a  transitional  independent  living
 program  under  the  age  of  [twenty-one]  TWENTY-FOUR  may continue to
 receive shelter services in such program beyond  the  applicable  period
 authorized by paragraph (b) of this subdivision, if the municipality has
 notified  the  office of children and family services in accordance with
 clause (iv) of subparagraph three of paragraph a of subdivision  two  of
 section four hundred twenty of this chapter;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06180-01-3

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