Bill Text: NY S00150 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 150 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Establishes a housing task force addressing affordable housing for millennials in suburban counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00150 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           150

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community Development

        AN  ACT  to establish a housing task force addressing affordable housing
          for millennials in suburban counties

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

     1    Section  1.  A  housing  task  force to address affordable housing for
     2  millennials in suburban counties is hereby established. The role of  the
     3  task force includes, but is not limited to:
     4    (a) facilitating interagency planning and policy;
     5    (b)  reviewing  specific agency initiatives for affordable housing for
     6  millennials ages 25 to 35;
     7    (c) providing a  continuing  forum  to  discuss  concerns  and  issues
     8  related to the formulation of state policy designed to help address this
     9  issue;
    10    (d)  developing  linkages and partnerships with housing developers and
    11  other appropriate entities to address the problem of lack of  affordable
    12  housing for millennials; and
    13    (e) identifying existing state initiatives that would aid in providing
    14  millennials with resources to find affordable housing.
    15    §  2. On or before two years after the effective date of this act, the
    16  task force shall issue its findings, any legislative recommendations  or
    17  proposed  state  policy  it  deems  necessary to the governor, temporary
    18  president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the
    19  senate, and minority leader of the assembly.
    20    § 3. The task force shall consist of a total of ten members and  shall
    21  be appointed as follows: one member shall be appointed by the department
    22  of  homes  and  community  renewal; one member shall be appointed by the
    23  department of economic development; one member shall be appointed joint-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02319-01-1

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     1  ly by the housing finance agency and the  mortgage  agency;  one  member
     2  shall  be appointed by the temporary president of the senate; one member
     3  shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly; one member  shall  be
     4  appointed  by the senate housing, construction and community development
     5  committee; one member shall be appointed by the assembly housing commit-
     6  tee; and three members shall be appointed by the governor.  All  members
     7  of  the  task  force shall have experience in or represent the following
     8  areas: housing providers and associations,  real  estate  providers  and
     9  associations, mortgage providers and associations and millennial consum-
    10  ers.
    11    §  4. The county executives from Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk coun-
    12  ties shall each select one of the members appointed in section three  of
    13  this act, and such members shall constitute a sub-task force to focus on
    14  affordable  housing  for  millennials in Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk
    15  counties.
    16    § 5. One of the appointments by the governor  shall  serve  as  chair-
    17  person of the task force.
    18    §  6.  The  members of the task force shall serve without compensation
    19  and the empire state development corporation shall  be  responsible  for
    20  any expenses incurred by the task force.
    21    §  7.  All  departments, divisions, bureaus, commissions, districts or
    22  agencies of the state or any political subdivisions  thereof  shall,  at
    23  the request of the chairperson, provide the task force with such facili-
    24  ties, assistance and data as will enable the task force to carry out its
    25  powers and duties.
    26    §  8.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    27  have become a law.