Bill Text: NY A01918 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the disclosure of disabled tenants' rights to reasonable accommodations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-08 - substituted by s867 [A01918 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A01918-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1918 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 12, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the disclo- sure of disabled tenants' rights to reasonable accommodations; and to repeal certain provisions of such law related thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 296 of the executive law, as 2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the executive law, 3 relating to requiring the disclosure of disabled tenants' rights to 4 reasonable accommodations, as proposed in legislative bills numbers 5 S.6220-A and A.8149-A, is REPEALED. 6 § 2. Subdivision 18-a of section 296 of the executive law, as added by 7 a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the executive law, relating to 8 requiring the disclosure of disabled tenants' rights to reasonable 9 accommodations, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.6220-A and 10 A.8149-A, is REPEALED. 11 § 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-d to 12 read as follows: 13 § 170-d. Disclosure of disabled tenants' rights. The division of human 14 rights shall promulgate regulations requiring every housing provider 15 under subdivisions two-a and five of section two hundred ninety-six of 16 this chapter, to provide notice to all tenants and prospective tenants, 17 in writing, within thirty days of the effective date of their tenancy, 18 or thirty days from the effective date of this section for current 19 tenants, of their rights to request reasonable modifications and accom- 20 modations pursuant to subparagraphs one, two and three of paragraph d of 21 subdivision two-a of section two hundred ninety-six of this chapter and 22 subdivision eighteen of section two hundred ninety-six of this chapter. 23 § 4. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 24 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the executive law, 25 relating to requiring the disclosure of disabled tenants' rights to 26 reasonable accommodations, as proposed in legislative bills numbers 27 S.6220-A and A.8149-A, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07149-01-1