Bill Text: NY A07265 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal to conduct annual audits of compliance with the affordable New York housing program and requires the results of such audits to be published on the division's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to housing [A07265 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07265-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7265

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GALLAGHER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in  relation  to  directing  the
          commissioner of housing and community renewal to conduct annual audits
          of compliance with the affordable New York housing program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 14 of the public housing law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8. The commissioner shall conduct an annual audit  of  the  affordable
     4  New  York  housing  program established pursuant to section four hundred
     5  twenty-one-a of the real property tax law to measure compliance with the
     6  requirements of such section. The audit shall  review  properties  which
     7  receive  benefits pursuant to the affordable New York housing program to
     8  confirm that owners of such  properties  are  complying  with  the  rent
     9  registration,  affordability,  rent  overcharge and application require-
    10  ments of such program.  The audit shall also  review  units  within  the
    11  geographic  exclusion  area, including any expanded geographic exclusion
    12  areas, such as the one added in two thousand seven, to ensure compliance
    13  with the affordability requirements.  The commissioner shall publish the
    14  results of the audit annually on or  before  December  thirty-first  and
    15  shall  make  such  results publicly available on the division's website.
    16  The initial audit shall be completed by the commissioner,  in  consulta-
    17  tion  with the state comptroller, and shall include all properties which
    18  are receiving or have received benefits pursuant to the  affordable  New
    19  York  housing  program or prior programs established pursuant to section
    20  four hundred twenty-one-a of the real property tax law; provided, howev-
    21  er, that all  subsequent  audits  need  only  include  properties  which
    22  received benefits during the prior year.  In the event that the afforda-
    23  ble  New York housing program is terminated or otherwise discontinued, a
    24  final audit of the program shall be submitted one year after such termi-
    25  nation or discontinuance.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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