Bill Text: NY A10450 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes ethics requirements for resident councils in a city having a population of one million inhabitants or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-24 - referred to housing [A10450 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10450-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10450

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 24, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Davila) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the public housing  law,  in  relation  to  establishing
          ethics requirements for certain resident councils

          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  62 to read as follows:
     3    §  62. Resident councils; ethics. 1. For the purposes of this section,
     4  the term "resident council" shall include any tenant associations, resi-
     5  dent associations, or tenant councils.
     6    2. In a city having a population of one million inhabitants or more, a
     7  municipal housing authority shall develop an ethics plan and conflict of
     8  interest form. Such authority shall promulgate rules and/or  regulations
     9  requiring  that  all  officers  of a resident council complete an ethics
    10  training and file a  completed  conflict  of  interest  form  with  such
    11  authority.  Such authority shall make all completed conflict of interest
    12  forms available to the public  on  its  website  and  shall  redact  any
    13  personal information from such conflict of interest forms.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15327-01-4
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