Assembly Bill A334

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring social distancing room configurations in homeless housing

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A334 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2919
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 2-B §53, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A10659, S8567

2021-A334 (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-A334 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    334
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04194-01-1

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