Bill > A2186

Introduced Session

This bill would require the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) to allow certain homeless shelter personnel to have access to real-time information about the occupancy status of shelter beds, as collected by the Homeless Management Information System. The information would be used to determine the availability of shelter beds in the nearby area. Specifically, the information would be made available to the operators of shelters for the homeless and selected local providers who place persons in homeless shelters. Under the bill, each homeless shelter operator would be required to update information about available shelter beds not later than one hour after a bed becomes available or occupied. Additionally, each shelter for the homeless would be required to provide any necessary information, as determined by the HMFA, the Department of Community Affairs, and the Department of Human Services, in order to be eligible for funding from the Department of Community Affairs and the Department of Human Services. The bill would not apply to shelters for victims of domestic violence.

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Annette Chaparro (D)*,  Richard Codey (D)*,  Angela Mcknight (D)*,  Raj Mukherji (D)*,  Nellie Pou (D)*,  JoAnn Downey (D),  Mila Jasey (D),  Angelica Jimenez (D),  Yvonne Lopez (D),  Carol Murphy (D),  Sterley Stanley (D),  Britnee Timberlake (D),  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D), 

Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (37-1) (on 01/10/2022)

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