Prohibits a municipality from relocating migrants from such municipality to another municipality in New York unless and until a resolution authorizing the relocation has been adopted by the governing bodies of both the municipality to which the migrants are to be relocated and the county in which the receiving municipality is located; mandates written notice prior to location; provides for a fine for violations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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836
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, BORRELLO, FERNANDEZ, HELMING, MATTERA,
MURRAY, OBERACKER, ORTT, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT in relation to prohibiting the relocation of migrants from one
municipality to another municipality unless and until a resolution
authorizing the relocation has been adopted by the governing bodies of
both the receiving municipality where the migrants are to be relocated
and the county in which the receiving municipality is located
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and referred to as the
2 "migrant home rule transfer and transparency act".
3 § 2. Notwithstanding any provisions of law, rule or regulation to the
4 contrary, no municipality shall relocate migrants from such municipality
5 for the purpose of permanent or temporary housing to another munici-
6 pality in New York unless and until a resolution authorizing the relo-
7 cation has been adopted by the governing bodies of both the receiving
8 municipality and the county in which the receiving municipality is
9 located. Prior to the actual physical relocation of the migrants, the
10 relocating municipality shall provide at least thirty days written
11 notice to the receiving municipality of the impending relocation of such
12 individuals.
13 § 3. As used in this act:
14 (i) "municipality" means a city, town, village or hamlet in New York
15 state;
16 (ii) "receiving municipality" means the municipality to which the
17 migrants are to be transported; and
18 (iii) "relocating municipality" means the municipality in which the
19 migrants are currently housed and from which the migrants are to be
20 relocated.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. A violation of the provisions of this act shall be punishable by
2 a fine in the amount of $1,000 per migrant, per day, payable to the
3 comptroller of the state of New York.
4 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
