Bill Text: NY A02205 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the inclusion of suicide prevention resources to be provided with a warrant of eviction, including the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the applicable Suicide Crisis telephone number as provided by the Office of Mental Health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - ordered to third reading cal.97 [A02205 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02205-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2205

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Judiciary

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property  actions and proceedings law, in
          relation to requiring the inclusion of suicide prevention resources to
          be provided with a  warrant of eviction

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 749 of the real property actions
     2  and proceedings law, as amended by section 19 of part M of chapter 36 of
     3  the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. (a) Upon rendering a final judgment for petitioner, the court shall
     5  issue a warrant directed to the sheriff of the county or to any  consta-
     6  ble  or marshal of the city in which the property, or a portion thereof,
     7  is situated, or, if it is not situated in a city, to  any  constable  of
     8  any  town  in  the county, describing the property, stating the earliest
     9  date upon which execution may occur pursuant to the order of the  court,
    10  and  commanding  the officer to remove all persons named in the proceed-
    11  ing, provided upon a showing of good cause, the court may issue  a  stay
    12  of  re-letting  or renovation of the premises for a reasonable period of
    13  time.
    14    (b) A warrant issued under  this  article  shall  include  information
    15  regarding  suicide  prevention  resources in clear, bold face type of no
    16  less than fourteen-point in size. Such information  shall  include,  but
    17  not  be  limited  to,  the  National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the
    18  applicable Suicide Crisis telephone number as provided by the  New  York
    19  State Office of Mental Health. Such information shall be provided to the
    20  person  or  persons  to be evicted or dispossessed at the time notice is
    21  served as provided in subdivision two of this section.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    23  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05760-01-1