Bill Text: NY S05342 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-21 - signed chap.171 [S05342 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05342-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5342--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 26, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community  Development  --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Housing,
          Construction and Community Development in accordance with Senate  Rule
          6,  sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        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,

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