Bill Text: NY S00628 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-24 - referred to housing [S00628 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00628-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           628
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. BOYLE, BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction
          and Community Development
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the lease
          and  landlord  fraud public awareness program to promote public aware-
          ness 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. Subparagraphs 14 and 15 of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  3
     2  of  section  94-a of the executive law, as added by section 21 of part A
     3  of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new subparagraph 16
     4  is added to read as follows:
     5    (14) cooperate with and assist consumers in class  actions  in  proper
     6  cases; [and]
     7    (15)  create  an internet website or webpage pursuant to section three
     8  hundred ninety-c of the general business law[.]; and
     9    (16) (i) establish the  lease  and  landlord  fraud  public  awareness
    10  program  to promote public awareness of the potential risks of signing a
    11  fraudulent lease with an  individual  misrepresenting  themselves  as  a
    12  landlord;
    13    (ii) to implement the lease and landlord public awareness program, the
    14  division shall:
    15    A. develop a public education and outreach campaign including, but not
    16  limited  to,  written materials and brochures to promote lease and land-
    17  lord fraud awareness and educate the general public on fraudulent leases
    18  and individuals misrepresenting themselves as landlords; and
    19    B. develop educational materials and brochures  which  shall  be  made
    20  available to the general public and local municipalities.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00066-01-9
        S. 628                              2
     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     2  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     3  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     4  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     5  completed on or before such effective date.