Bill Text: NY A00819 | 2023-2024 | 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 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to housing [A00819 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00819-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           819

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GIBBS, TAYLOR, GLICK, REYES -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Housing

        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-g to read as follows:
     3    §  402-g.  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.