Bill Text: NY A03112 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to directing the division of human rights to promulgate regulations requiring the disclosure of lawful source of income rights to prospective tenants; directs certain government entities and non-profit entities authorized to administer public housing programs or assistance to ensure potential recipients of public assistance are informed to their rights related to lawful source of income discrimination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - signed chap.243 [A03112 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03112-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3112--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, WEPRIN, NOLAN, HEVESI, REYES, SEAWRIGHT,
          SIMON,  GOTTFRIED,  PERRY,  TAYLOR,  DAVILA,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  GALLAGHER,
          GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Govern-
          mental  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division
          of human rights to promulgate regulations requiring housing  providers
          to  provide  tenants  with  notice  of  their rights related to lawful
          source of income discrimination

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

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 170-e. Disclosure of lawful source of income rights to  tenants.  1.
     4  The  division  of  human  rights  shall promulgate regulations requiring
     5  every housing provider under subdivisions two-a and five of section  two
     6  hundred ninety-six of this chapter, to provide notice to all tenants and
     7  prospective  tenants,  in  writing,  within thirty days of the effective
     8  date of their tenancy, or thirty days from the effective  date  of  this
     9  section  for  current  tenants,  of their rights and remedies under law,
    10  related to lawful source of income discrimination.
    11    2. Any state, county, municipal or other governmental entity,  includ-
    12  ing but not limited to the division of housing and community renewal, or
    13  any  agency  or  instrumentality  of  such  an entity, and any public or
    14  private non-profit entity authorized to administer  any  public  housing
    15  program  or assistance, including, but not limited to, the section eight
    16  housing choice voucher program, or any other form of housing assistance,
    17  payment, subsidy or credit, regardless of whether or  not  such  assist-
    18  ance,  payment,  subsidy  or  credit is paid or attributed directly to a
    19  landlord, shall ensure that  recipients  or  individuals  authorized  to
    20  receive  such  assistance,  payment,  subsidy or credit are informed, in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03165-03-1
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     1  writing, of their rights and remedies available under law,  with  regard
     2  to lawful source of income discrimination pursuant to this section.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.