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                                  3181

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 22, 2015
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Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
  commissioner of temporary and disability assistance to submit an annu-
  al  report  detailing  local  social  services  districts  efforts  to
  prevent, identify, and address homelessness

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision (d) of section 17 of the social services law,
as amended by chapter 749 of the laws of 1989, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (d)  submit an annual report to the governor and the legislature prior
to the fifteenth day of December of each year. Such annual report  shall
include  the  following: the affairs of the department and the status of
welfare programs in the state with recommendations for  the  improvement
and  development  of welfare programs; a report on the department's fair
hearing system, as required by section twenty-two  of  this  article;  a
written  evaluation  report on the delivery of child welfare services in
the state, as required by subdivision five of section four hundred seven
of this chapter; a report of the operations of the state central  regis-
ter  of child abuse and maltreatment and the various local child protec-
tive services, as required by section four hundred  twenty-six  of  this
chapter;  a report on the number and status and the findings of investi-
gations of deaths of children pursuant to subdivision  five  of  section
twenty of this [chapter] ARTICLE; a report on the progress of the devel-
opment  and  operation  of  the child care review system, as required by
subdivision nine of section four  hundred  forty-two  of  this  chapter;
commencing  before  December fifteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-four and
terminating on  December  fifteenth,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-nine,  a
progress  report  on  the  planning  and  implementation  of the teenage
services act as required by  the  provisions  of  section  four  hundred

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06590-01-5
              

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nine-m of [title four-B of] this chapter; an analysis of the information
contained  in the registry of community facilities, as required by para-
graph (b) of subdivision two of section four  hundred  sixty-three-a  of
this  chapter;  [and]  a  report  on  the operation of the child support
enforcement program, as required by chapter six hundred  eighty-five  of
the  laws  of nineteen hundred seventy-five; AND A REPORT OF THE EFFORTS
OF EACH LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT TO IDENTIFY, PREVENT, AND ADDRESS
THEIR HOMELESS POPULATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROJECTS  FUNDED
BY FEDERAL, STATE, MUNICIPAL, OR PRIVATE DOLLARS;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.