New York A 3179: Requires working kitchens in homeless family shelter units

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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3179
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring family
homeless shelters for ten or more families in the city of New York to
have a working kitchen in each individual housing unit
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
2 152-d to read as follows:
3 § 152-d. On-site working kitchens. In the city of New York any provid-
4 er of temporary housing assistance for ten or more families in a family
5 homeless shelter shall be required to have a working kitchen in each
6 individual housing unit. Such "working kitchen" shall be installed
7 within sixty days of the registration of the contract between the opera-
8 tor of such family homeless shelter and the city of New York. For the
9 purposes of this section, "working kitchen" shall mean an area in each
10 individual housing unit where food can be prepared and cooked. Such
11 working kitchen shall include, at a minimum, a sink, a refrigerator and
12 a double burner stove. If a provider of temporary family housing shel-
13 ter fails to meet the requirements set out in this section, it shall be
14 prohibited from accepting any new clients until such requirements are
15 met.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
18 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
19 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
20 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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