S 6632: Requires the city of New York to consult with the community board of the district and all local elected officials where a proposed homeless shelter or use of commercial hotel space to shelter homeless individuals shall be located, at least three hundred sixty-five days beforehand.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6632 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 19, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1 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. LBD09795-01-5