Bill Text: NY S06220 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the disclosure of disabled tenants' rights to reasonable accommodations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-02 - approval memo.23 [S06220 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06220-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6220--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the disclo-
          sure of disabled tenants' rights to reasonable accommodations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 296 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
     3    2-b.  Every  owner, lessee, sub-lessee, assignee, or managing agent of
     4  publicly-assisted housing accommodations  or  other  person  having  the
     5  right  of  ownership or possession of or the right to rent or lease such
     6  accommodations shall disclose to all tenants and prospective tenants  of
     7  their  right  to  request reasonable modifications and accommodations if
     8  they have a disability pursuant to subdivision two-a  of  this  section.
     9  Such  disclosure shall be made in writing in such form and manner as the
    10  division may by regulation prescribe and provided to all current tenants
    11  within thirty days of the beginning of their  tenancy,  or  thirty  days
    12  from  the  effective  date of this subdivision for current tenants. Such
    13  disclosure shall also be conspicuously posted in such form and manner as
    14  the division may by regulation prescribe on  every  vacant  publicly-as-
    15  sisted housing accommodation that is available for rent.
    16    §  2.  Section  296  of  the  executive law is amended by adding a new
    17  subdivision 18-a to read as follows:
    18    18-a. Every owner, lessee, sub-lessee, assignee, or managing agent of,
    19  or other person having the right of ownership of or possession of or the
    20  right to rent or lease housing  accommodations  shall  disclose  to  all
    21  tenants  and  prospective  tenants  of their right to request reasonable
    22  modifications and accommodations if they have a disability  pursuant  to
    23  subdivision  eighteen of this section.  Such disclosure shall be made in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11987-02-9

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     1  writing in such form and  manner  as  the  division  may  by  regulation
     2  prescribe  and provided to all current tenants within thirty days of the
     3  beginning of their tenancy, or thirty days from the  effective  date  of
     4  this  subdivision  for  current  tenants.  Such disclosure shall also be
     5  conspicuously posted in such form and manner  as  the  division  may  by
     6  regulation  prescribe  on  every  vacant  housing  accommodation that is
     7  available for rent.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.
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