Bill Text: NY A10921 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of the inspector general to establish a searchable public database providing information regarding eviction proceedings in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - referred to governmental operations [A10921 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10921-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10921

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 17, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lifton) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring  the  office
          of  the  inspector  general  to establish a searchable public database
          providing information regarding eviction proceedings in the state

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 53 of the executive law, as added
     2  by chapter 766 of the laws of 2005, is amended and a new  subdivision  8
     3  is added to read as follows:
     4    7.  establish  programs  for  training  state  officers  and employees
     5  regarding the prevention and elimination of corruption, fraud,  criminal
     6  activity, conflicts of interest or abuse in covered agencies[.];
     7    8. establish an electronic database of all eviction proceedings in the
     8  state.  Such  database shall include, but not be limited to, the follow-
     9  ing: the court index number; the docket number and date the  action  was
    10  filed;  whether  the  tenant  had  legal  representation in the eviction
    11  proceeding; whether an eviction has been ordered and the date  on  which
    12  such  eviction  was  ordered; the reason for the eviction and, where the
    13  reason is for nonpayment, the amount owed; the name and address  of  the
    14  landlord; whether the property is commercial or residential; and the zip
    15  code  of  the  property. Such database shall be available to the public,
    16  accessible from the office's website, and able to be searched and sorted
    17  into the categories required to be included in the database pursuant  to
    18  this subdivision.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14409-02-0