Bill Text: NY S06170 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-17 - referred to judiciary [S06170 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06170-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6170--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 13, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the executive 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.
                                                                   LBD09062-05-1