Bill Text: NY S08035 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires owners and agents of multiple residences and multiple dwellings to update the list of names and contact information of residents provided to emergency personnel where such owner is an authority as such term is defined in section three of the public housing law, including all such authorities established after the first day of January, nineteen hundred thirty-nine, upon annual recertification.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-23 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8494 [S08035 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08035-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8035

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the multiple residence law  and  the  multiple  dwelling
          law, in relation to requiring owners and agents of multiple residences
          and  multiple  dwellings  to  provide names and contact information of
          residents to emergency personnel

          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 16 of the multiple residence law,
     2  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending  the  multiple  resi-
     3  dence law and the multiple dwelling law relating to requiring owners and
     4  agents  of  multiple  residences and multiple dwellings to provide names
     5  and contact information of residents to emergency personnel, as proposed
     6  in legislative bills numbers S.2294-A and A.2134-A, is amended  to  read
     7  as follows:
     8    2. The owner or agent of such multiple residence shall update the list
     9  of  names and contact information of all affected residents or occupants
    10  of such multiple residence upon the execution  of  a  new  lease,  lease
    11  renewal  or lease amendment, or where such owner is an authority as such
    12  term is defined in section three of the public  housing  law,  including
    13  all  such  authorities established after the first day of January, nine-
    14  teen hundred thirty-nine,  upon  annual  recertification.  Specific  and
    15  informed  written consent shall be obtained by the owner or agent of the
    16  multiple residence from each occupant or resident each time the list  is
    17  updated  and  no  occupant's  or  resident's name or contact information
    18  shall be included in such list without their specific and informed writ-
    19  ten consent. Written notice shall be provided to the occupant  or  resi-
    20  dent about the contact list and shall include but not be limited to that
    21  such  list  is  maintained  by  the  owner  and  the potential impact of
    22  opting-out.
    23    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 15 of  the  multiple  dwelling  law,  as
    24  added  by  a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the multiple residence
    25  law and the multiple dwelling  law  relating  to  requiring  owners  and
    26  agents  of  multiple  residences and multiple dwellings to provide names

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01438-04-4
        S. 8035                             2

     1  and contact information of residents to emergency personnel, as proposed
     2  in legislative bills numbers S.2294-A and A.2134-A, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    2.  The owner or agent of such multiple dwelling shall update the list
     5  of names and contact information of all affected residents or  occupants
     6  of  such  multiple  dwelling  upon  the  execution of a new lease, lease
     7  renewal or lease amendment, or where such owner is an authority as  such
     8  term  is  defined  in section three of the public housing law, including
     9  all such authorities established after the first day of  January,  nine-
    10  teen  hundred  thirty-nine,  upon  annual  recertification. Specific and
    11  informed written consent shall be obtained by the owner or agent of  the
    12  multiple  dwelling  from each occupant or resident each time the list is
    13  updated and no occupant's or  resident's  name  or  contact  information
    14  shall be included in such list without their specific and informed writ-
    15  ten  consent.  Written notice shall be provided to the occupant or resi-
    16  dent about the contact list and shall include but not be limited to that
    17  such list is maintained  by  the  owner  and  the  potential  impact  of
    18  opting-out.
    19    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    20  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the multiple  residence
    21  law  and  the  multiple  dwelling  law  relating to requiring owners and
    22  agents of multiple residences and multiple dwellings  to  provide  names
    23  and contact information of residents to emergency personnel, as proposed
    24  in legislative bills numbers S.2294-A and A.2134-A, takes effect.