New York Assembly Bill A06296 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6296 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Cities AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the placement of homeless shelters The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended 2 by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows: 3 § 21-124.2 Placement of homeless shelters. a. The city shall not 4 propose the location of a homeless shelter or establish a homeless shel- 5 ter without consulting with the community board of the district and all 6 local elected officials of the district where such proposed homeless 7 shelter shall be located at least three hundred sixty-five days before- 8 hand. 9 b. The city shall not plan to use over thirty percent of the rooms in 10 a commercial hotel, or pay for over twenty percent of the rooms in a 11 commercial hotel, or reserve all the rooms on a floor in a commercial 12 hotel for the purpose of providing shelter for homeless individuals, or 13 change the use of an existing shelter, without consulting with the 14 community board of the district and all local elected officials of the 15 district where such commercial hotel is located at least three hundred 16 sixty-five days beforehand. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 18 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02268-01-3