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

New York Senate Bill 6220 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6220

                               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

        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    §  2.  Section  296  of  the  executive law is amended by adding a new
    10  subdivision 18-a to read as follows:
    11    18-a. Every owner, lessee, sub-lessee, assignee, or managing agent of,
    12  or other person having the right of ownership of or possession of or the
    13  right to rent or lease housing  accommodations  shall  disclose  to  all
    14  tenants  and  prospective  tenants  of their right to request reasonable
    15  modifications and accommodations if they have a disability  pursuant  to
    16  subdivision eighteen of this section.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11987-01-9