Bill Text: NY S07798 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the New York City Housing Authority and the department of information technology and telecommunications of the city of New York to establish a 311 hotline to receive public housing complaints.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-26 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S07798 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07798-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7798
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 26, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sens. KLEIN, ALCANTARA, SAVINO -- 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 and the New York city charter, in
          relation to directing the New York City Housing Authority to establish
          a 311 hotline for the submission and receipt of complaints
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Title 1 of article 13 of the public housing law is amended
     2  by adding a new section 402-d to read as follows:
     3    § 402-d. New York City Housing Authority 311  hotline.  The  New  York
     4  City Housing Authority is authorized and directed to establish, in coor-
     5  dination  with the department of information technology and telecommuni-
     6  cations of the city of New York, a 311 hotline whereby residents of  any
     7  project  operated  by  such  authority may report housing violations and
     8  submit other complaints through the 311 citizens service center.
     9    § 2. The New York city charter is amended by adding a new section 1076
    10  to read as follows:
    11    § 1076. New York City Housing Authority 311 hotline. The department is
    12  authorized and directed to establish a housing authority 311 hotline, in
    13  coordination with the New York City Housing Authority.   The  department
    14  or  the  city council may promulgate any rules and regulations necessary
    15  to accept and process complaints from tenants of public housing projects
    16  operated by the New York City Housing Authority.  The  department  shall
    17  further  establish  rules  and  procedures  for the timely and effective
    18  transmission of such resident complaints to the New  York  City  Housing
    19  Authority  in  coordination  with the department of housing preservation
    20  and development.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    22  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    23  ly, the New York City Housing Authority and the department  of  informa-
    24  tion  technology  and  telecommunications  of  the  city of New York are
    25  authorized and directed to promulgate any rules and  regulations  neces-
    26  sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date on or
    27  before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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