STATE OF NEW YORK
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2307
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- 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, in relation to submitting and
tracking complaints relating to housing conditions and making such
information publicly available
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
2 20-a to read as follows:
3 § 20-a. Submitting and tracking housing condition complaints. 1. The
4 commissioner shall establish a system that allows individuals:
5 (a) to submit, online and by telephone, complaints alleging housing
6 conditions that would, if proved, violate any law, rule or regulation
7 relating to the maintenance, use, occupancy, safety or sanitary condi-
8 tion of any building or portion thereof which is occupied, arranged or
9 intended to be occupied as a home, residence or dwelling place; and
10 (b) obtain, online and by telephone, information relating to such
11 complaints, including the status thereof.
12 2. The commissioner shall publish on the division of housing and
13 community renewal website the following information relating to the
14 complaints made pursuant to subdivision one of this section:
15 (a) the date of the complaint;
16 (b) the address of the building to which the complaint relates;
17 (c) the conditions complained of, including the law, rule or regu-
18 lation such conditions would, if proved, violate; and
19 (d) the status of the complaint.
20 3. Beginning one year after the effective date of this section, and
21 annually thereafter, the commissioner shall publish on the division of
22 housing and community renewal website a report summarizing the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 complaints made to the division of housing and community renewal pursu-
2 ant to subdivision one of this section during the previous year.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.
