Bill Text: NY S05806 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the New York city council to oversee the activities of the New York city housing authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S05806 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05806-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5806

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 18, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 public housing law and the New York city charter, in
          relation  to  authorizing  the  New  York  city council to oversee the
          activities of the New York city housing authority

          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  402-f to read as follows:
     3    § 402-f. New York city council oversight.  The New York  city  council
     4  as  established  in  section  twenty-one of the New York city charter is
     5  empowered to mandate that the New York city  housing  authority  produce
     6  reports  about  any  facets  of  its  operations or the condition of the
     7  projects under its management, including any project based section eight
     8  voucher developments in which the  authority  has  an  ownership  stake,
     9  through  the  passage  of  a local law. Such a law shall determine which
    10  information is to be included  in  the  report,  the  deadline  for  the
    11  production  of the report, whether the reporting mandate applies once or
    12  is recurring, and which local authorities shall receive copies.  A  copy
    13  of  any  such  reports must be provided to the commissioner and shall be
    14  considered an agency document for the purposes of  article  six  of  the
    15  public officers law.
    16    §  2.  Subdivision  a  of  section 29 of the New York city charter, as
    17  added by a vote of the people of the city of New  York  at  the  general
    18  election held in November 1989, is amended to read as follows:
    19    a.  The council, acting as a committee of the whole, and each standing
    20  or special committee of the council, through hearings or otherwise:
    21    1. [may] May investigate any matters within its jurisdiction  relating
    22  to  the  property,  affairs,  or government of the city or of any county
    23  within the city, or to any other powers of the council, or to the effec-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  tuation of the purposes or provisions of this charter or any laws relat-
     2  ing to the city or to any county within the city.
     3    2.  [shall]  Shall review on a regular and continuous basis the activ-
     4  ities of the agencies of the city, including  their  service  goals  and
     5  performance  and  management efficiency.   Each unit of appropriation in
     6  the adopted budget of the city shall be assigned to a  standing  commit-
     7  tee.    Each  standing  committee of the council shall hold at least one
     8  hearing each year relating to the activities of  each  of  the  agencies
     9  under its jurisdiction.
    10    3.  Shall  review  on a regular and continuous basis the activities of
    11  the New York  city  housing  authority,  including  the  service  goals,
    12  performance  and management efficiency of such authority. Such authority
    13  shall be assigned to a standing committee. Such  standing  committee  of
    14  the  council  shall  hold at least one hearing each year relating to the
    15  activities of the New York city housing authority.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.