Bill Text: NY S02631 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the chief administrator of the office of court administration to establish a searchable public database providing information regarding eviction proceedings in the state; directs the chief administrator to adopt rules directing village, town or other local courts to report their eviction proceeding data to the office of court administration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S02631 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02631-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2631

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring  the  office
          of  court  administration  to  establish  a searchable public database
          providing information regarding eviction proceedings in the state

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  212  of the judiciary law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (cc) to read as follows:
     3    (cc) establish an electronic database of all eviction  proceedings  in
     4  the  state.  Such  database  shall  include,  but not be limited to, the
     5  following: the docket number and date the action was filed; whether  the
     6  tenant  had  legal representation in the eviction proceeding; whether an
     7  eviction has been ordered and  the  date  on  which  such  eviction  was
     8  ordered;  the  reason  for  the  eviction  and,  where the reason is for
     9  nonpayment, the amount owed; whether the tenant had a  lease  agreement;
    10  the  number  of individuals evicted and the number of unique households;
    11  whether the property is commercial or residential; and the zip  code  of
    12  the property.  In compliance with the tenant protection act of two thou-
    13  sand  nineteen,  any  personally  identifiable  information shall not be
    14  included in the database.  Such  database  shall  be  available  to  the
    15  public,  accessible  from  the office's website, and able to be searched
    16  and sorted into the categories required to be included in  the  database
    17  pursuant  to  this paragraph.  The chief administrator shall adopt rules
    18  consistent  with  the  requirements  of  this  paragraph  directing  any
    19  village,  town  or other local courts that may have eviction proceedings
    20  within their  subject  matter  jurisdiction  to  report  their  eviction
    21  proceeding  data to the office of court administration no less than four
    22  times annually, at an interval of three  months,  for  the  purposes  of
    23  compiling the statewide eviction database required by this paragraph.
    24    § 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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