Bill Text: NY A05410 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the NYC housing authority to include a notice informing a prospective tenant or current tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to the lease or renewal lease and to provide a form to add the additional legal occupants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-21 - signed chap.171 [A05410 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05410-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5410--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- 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 requiring that
          the New York city housing  authority  include  a  notice  informing  a
          prospective  tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to
          the lease or renewal lease, and provide, upon request, a tenant with a
          form to add additional legal occupants

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

     1    Section  1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
     3    6-a. a. The New York city housing authority shall include  with  every
     4  lease  or  renewal  lease  offered to a prospective or current tenant, a
     5  separate, clear and conspicuous notice, in at least sixteen-point  bold-
     6  face type, concerning the tenant's ability to add additional legal occu-
     7  pants to the lease agreement.
     8    b.  Upon receipt of a tenant's request for a form to add an additional
     9  legal occupant to his or her lease agreement, the authority shall, with-
    10  in seven days, provide the tenant with clear information  regarding  how
    11  to  apply  in person or online, along with a notice informing the tenant
    12  of the right to grieve the denial of any occupancy  permission  request.
    13  Any  form required by the authority to request such occupancy permission
    14  shall be made available for review and  submission  in  person,  on  the
    15  authority's website, and through the authority's mobile application.
    16    c. Upon receipt of a tenant's request to add an additional legal occu-
    17  pant  to  his  or  her  lease agreement, the authority shall provide the
    18  tenant, in writing, with confirmation of  receipt  of  the  application,
    19  information  regarding  how  the  tenant may inquire as to the status of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  such request, and the expected date of the authority's response to  such
     2  request.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.