Bill Text: NY A00619 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 619 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes the lease and landlord fraud public awareness program to promote public awareness of the potential risks of signing a fraudulent lease with an individual misrepresenting themselves as a landlord.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-20 - REFERRED TO RULES [A00619 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00619-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         619--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, BARRON, D'URSO, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, COLTON,
          PERRY,  COOK, WALLACE, MOSLEY, SIMOTAS, TAYLOR, JAFFEE, BLAKE, CRUZ --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to  the
          Committee  on  Housing  --  recommitted to the Committee on Housing in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to establishing  the
          lease  and  landlord  fraud public awareness program to promote public
          awareness of the potential risks of signing a fraudulent lease with an
          individual misrepresenting themselves as a landlord

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
     2  20-a to read as follows:
     3    § 20-a. Lease and landlord fraud  public  awareness  program.  1.  The
     4  lease  and landlord fraud public awareness program is hereby established
     5  within the division to promote public awareness of the  potential  risks
     6  of  signing  a fraudulent lease with an individual misrepresenting them-
     7  selves as a landlord.
     8    2. The division shall:
     9    a. develop a public education and outreach campaign including, but not
    10  limited to, written materials and brochures to promote lease  and  land-
    11  lord fraud awareness and educate the general public on fraudulent leases
    12  and individuals misrepresenting themselves as landlords; and
    13    b.  develop  educational  materials  and brochures which shall be made
    14  available to the general public and local municipalities.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    18  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    19  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00066-02-0