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Assembly Bill A9165

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires quarterly inspections of homeless shelters

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2023-A9165 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2514
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §20, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7086
2021-2022: S673
2025-2026: A6096, S4474

2023-A9165 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.

2023-A9165 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9165
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MEEKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  quar-
   terly inspections of homeless shelters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 20 of the social services law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9.  THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE SHALL PROMULGATE
 RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIRING THAT THE DEPARTMENT, OR A  LOCAL  SOCIAL
 SERVICES  DISTRICT  WHERE APPROPRIATE, SHALL EACH YEAR CONDUCT A MINIMUM
 OF FOUR FULL UNANNOUNCED INSPECTIONS OF EACH FACILITY WHICH IS  USED  TO
 SHELTER  HOMELESS  PERSONS  WITHIN  THE  STATE,  WITH  AT LEAST ONE FULL
 INSPECTION PERFORMED EACH QUARTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06287-01-3

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