Bill Text: NY A08149 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the disclosure of disabled tenants' rights to reasonable accommodations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-02 - approval memo.23 [A08149 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08149-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8149--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the  disclo-
          sure of disabled tenants' rights to reasonable accommodations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 296 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
     3    2-b. Every owner, lessee, sub-lessee, assignee, or managing  agent  of
     4  publicly-assisted  housing  accommodations  or  other  person having the
     5  right of ownership or possession of or the right to rent or  lease  such
     6  accommodations  shall disclose to all tenants and prospective tenants of
     7  their right to request reasonable modifications  and  accommodations  if
     8  they  have  a  disability pursuant to subdivision two-a of this section.
     9  Such disclosure shall be made in writing in such form and manner as  the
    10  division may by regulation prescribe and provided to all current tenants
    11  within  thirty  days  of  the beginning of their tenancy, or thirty days
    12  from the effective date of this subdivision for  current  tenants.  Such
    13  disclosure shall also be conspicuously posted in such form and manner as
    14  the  division  may  by regulation prescribe on every vacant publicly-as-
    15  sisted housing accommodation that is available for rent.
    16    § 2. Section 296 of the executive law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    17  subdivision 18-a to read as follows:
    18    18-a. Every owner, lessee, sub-lessee, assignee, or managing agent of,
    19  or other person having the right of ownership of or possession of or the
    20  right  to  rent  or  lease  housing accommodations shall disclose to all
    21  tenants and prospective tenants of their  right  to  request  reasonable
    22  modifications  and  accommodations if they have a disability pursuant to
    23  subdivision eighteen of this section.  Such disclosure shall be made  in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  writing  in  such  form  and  manner  as  the division may by regulation
     2  prescribe and provided to all current tenants within thirty days of  the
     3  beginning  of  their  tenancy, or thirty days from the effective date of
     4  this  subdivision  for  current  tenants.  Such disclosure shall also be
     5  conspicuously posted in such form and manner  as  the  division  may  by
     6  regulation  prescribe  on  every  vacant  housing  accommodation that is
     7  available for rent.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.