Bill Text: NY A00621 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 621 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that the sale of real property owned by the NYC housing authority to a private entity must be approved by the state legislature.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to housing [A00621 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00621-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          621
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. WRIGHT, AUBRY, GLICK, LENTOL, PHEFFER, CLARK,
         ARROYO, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.  KELLNER,  MAISEL,
         O'DONNELL, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
       AN  ACT  to  amend the public housing law, in relation to regulating the
         conveyance of certain public housing
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Sections  402-a  and  402-b of the public housing law are
    2  renumbered sections 402-b and 402-c and a new section 402-a is added  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    S  402-A. CONVEYANCE OF PUBLIC HOUSING; RESTRICTIONS. ANY CONTRACT FOR
    5  THE SALE OR TRANSFER OF ANY REAL PROPERTY OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY THE NEW
    6  YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY TO A PRIVATE ENTITY MUST BE APPROVED BY  THE
    7  LEGISLATURE.
    8    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
    9  contract for the sale or transfer of real property to a  private  entity
   10  by the New York city housing authority on or after such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03611-01-1