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Assembly Bill A5409

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires local social services districts distribute shelter information specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons

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2025-A5409 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5925
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §17, Soc Serv L

2025-A5409 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires local social services districts distribute shelter information specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons on the district's website and as pamphlets at intake shelters.

2025-A5409 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5409
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  local
   social  services districts distribute shelter information specifically
   for lesbian, gay, bisexual,  transgender,  and  gender  non-conforming
   persons

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
   (M) REQUIRE ALL LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICTS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
 INCLUDING  RESOURCES  AND  ACCOMMODATIONS  FOR  LESBIAN,  GAY, BISEXUAL,
 TRANSGENDER, AND GENDER  NON-CONFORMING  INDIVIDUALS  ON  THEIR  SHELTER
 WEBPAGE  AND AS A PAMPHLET PROVIDED TO INTAKE SHELTERS. SUCH INFORMATION
 SHALL:
   (I) SPECIFY WHERE LESBIAN,  GAY,  BISEXUAL,  TRANSGENDER,  AND  GENDER
 NON-CONFORMING INDIVIDUALS SHOULD GO IF THEY ARE LOOKING TO BE HOUSED IN
 A SHELTER.
   (II)  INCLUDE  WHETHER LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, AND GENDER
 NON-CONFORMING SHELTER BEDS ARE AN OPTION IN THEIR MUNICIPALITY AND,  IF
 THERE ARE NO SUCH SHELTER BEDS, THE AGENCY SHALL LIST RESOURCES OF NEAR-
 BY  NON-PROFITS OR OTHER LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, AND GENDER
 NON-CONFORMING SHELTER OPTIONS WITHIN THE MUNICIPALITY.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD04143-01-5

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