Bill Text: NY S07108 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to housing assistance outreach.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-29 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S07108 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07108-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7108
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 29, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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, in relation to housing assist-
          ance outreach
          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  229 to read as follows:
     3    § 229. Housing assistance outreach. 1. On or  before  December  first,
     4  two  thousand  sixteen,  the  division  of housing and community renewal
     5  shall develop and implement an ongoing education and outreach program to
     6  inform New York landlords about housing assistance provided through  the
     7  emergency housing rent control law, the emergency tenant protection act,
     8  the  administrative  code of the city of New York, the rental assistance
     9  program for rural areas under article seventeen-A of the private housing
    10  finance law, and other assistance provided for by this chapter.
    11    2. The education and outreach program shall, at a minimum, provide New
    12  York landlords with information regarding:
    13    (a) housing assistance provided under New York law described in subdi-
    14  vision one of this section;
    15    (b) the procedures and rules for  such  housing  assistance  including
    16  information included in chapter eleven of title twenty-six of the admin-
    17  istrative code of the city of New York; and
    18    (c)  the  eligibility  requirements  that tenants must meet to receive
    19  such assistance.
    20    3. The commissioner shall report to the governor, temporary  president
    21  of  the  senate  and speaker of the assembly on or before January first,
    22  two thousand eighteen,  regarding  the  effectiveness  of  the  outreach
    23  program  and any legislative action that may be necessary to improve the
    24  efficiency and effectiveness of the housing assistance provided  for  in
    25  New York law.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13761-01-6