Bill Text: NY A01930 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Establishes the lease and landlord fraud public awareness program to promote public awareness of the potential risks of signing a fraudulent lease with an individual misrepresenting themselves as a landlord.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-01 - returned to senate [A01930 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01930-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         1930--A
                                                                Cal. No. 147
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. JOYNER, BARRON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing -- advanced to a third reading, passed by  Assem-
          bly and delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote recon-
          sidered,  bill  amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the
          order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the lease
          and landlord fraud public awareness program to promote  public  aware-
          ness  of  the  potential  risks  of signing a fraudulent lease with an
          individual misrepresenting themselves as a landlord
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraphs 14 and 15 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3
     2  of section 94-a of the executive law, as added by section 21 of  part  A
     3  of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new subparagraph 16
     4  is added to read as follows:
     5    (14)  cooperate  with  and assist consumers in class actions in proper
     6  cases; [and]
     7    (15) create an internet website or webpage pursuant to  section  three
     8  hundred ninety-c of the general business law[.]; and
     9    (16)  (i)  establish  the  lease  and  landlord fraud public awareness
    10  program to promote public awareness of the potential risks of signing  a
    11  fraudulent  lease  with  an  individual  misrepresenting themselves as a
    12  landlord;
    13    (ii) to implement the lease and landlord public awareness program, the
    14  division shall:
    15    A. develop a public education and outreach campaign including, but not
    16  limited to, written materials and brochures to promote lease  and  land-
    17  lord fraud awareness and educate the general public on fraudulent leases
    18  and individuals misrepresenting themselves as landlords; and
    19    B.  develop  educational  materials  and brochures which shall be made
    20  available to the general public and local municipalities.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05509-03-8
        A. 1930--A                          2
     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     2  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     3  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     4  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
     5  completed on or before such effective date.