Bill Text: NY S06135 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the lease and landlord fraud public awareness program to promote public awareness of the potential risks of signing a fraudulent lease with an individual misrepresenting themselves as a landlord.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06135 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06135-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6135

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- 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 establishing the
          lease and landlord fraud public awareness program  to  promote  public
          awareness of the potential risks of signing a fraudulent lease with an
          individual misrepresenting themselves as a landlord

          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.  Lease  and  landlord  fraud public awareness program. 1. The
     4  lease and landlord fraud public awareness program is hereby  established
     5  within  the  division to promote public awareness of the potential risks
     6  of signing a fraudulent lease with an individual  misrepresenting  them-
     7  selves as a landlord.
     8    2. The division shall:
     9    a. develop a public education and outreach campaign including, but not
    10  limited  to,  written materials and brochures to promote lease and land-
    11  lord fraud awareness and educate the general public on fraudulent leases
    12  and individuals misrepresenting themselves as landlords; and
    13    b. develop educational materials and brochures  which  shall  be  made
    14  available to the general public and local municipalities.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    18  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    19  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03534-01-1