Bill Text: NY S03930 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to submitting and tracking complaints relating to housing conditions and making such information publicly available.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-30 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S03930 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03930-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3930

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2025
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public housing law, in relation to submitting and
          tracking complaints relating to housing  conditions  and  making  such
          information publicly available

          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  20-a to read as follows:
     3    §  20-a.  Submitting and tracking housing condition complaints. 1. The
     4  commissioner shall establish a system that allows individuals:
     5    (a) to submit, online and by telephone,  complaints  alleging  housing
     6  conditions  that  would,  if proved, violate any law, rule or regulation
     7  relating to the maintenance, use, occupancy, safety or  sanitary  condi-
     8  tion  of  any building or portion thereof which is occupied, arranged or
     9  intended to be occupied as a home, residence or dwelling place; and
    10    (b) obtain, online and by  telephone,  information  relating  to  such
    11  complaints, including the status thereof.
    12    2.  The  commissioner  shall  publish  on  the division of housing and
    13  community renewal website the  following  information  relating  to  the
    14  complaints made pursuant to subdivision one of this section:
    15    (a) the date of the complaint;
    16    (b) the address of the building to which the complaint relates;
    17    (c)  the  conditions  complained  of, including the law, rule or regu-
    18  lation such conditions would, if proved, violate; and
    19    (d) the status of the complaint.
    20    3. Beginning one year after the effective date of  this  section,  and
    21  annually  thereafter,  the commissioner shall publish on the division of
    22  housing  and  community  renewal  website  a  report   summarizing   the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05402-01-5
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     1  complaints  made to the division of housing and community renewal pursu-
     2  ant to subdivision one of this section during the previous year.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.