STATE OF NEW YORK
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6170--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 13, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to
the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the office
of court administration to establish a searchable public database
providing information regarding eviction proceedings in the state
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 212 of the judiciary law, is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (cc) to read as follows:
3 (cc) establish an electronic database of all eviction proceedings in
4 the state. Such database shall include, but not be limited to, the
5 following: the docket number and date the action was filed; whether the
6 tenant had legal representation in the eviction proceeding; whether an
7 eviction has been ordered and the date on which such eviction was
8 ordered; the reason for the eviction and, where the reason is for
9 nonpayment, the amount owed; whether the tenant had a lease agreement;
10 the number of individuals evicted and the number of unique households;
11 whether the property is commercial or residential; and the zip code of
12 the property. In compliance with the tenant protection act of two thou-
13 sand nineteen, any personally identifiable information shall not be
14 included in the database. Such database shall be available to the
15 public, accessible from the office's website, and able to be searched
16 and sorted into the categories required to be included in the database
17 pursuant to this paragraph. The chief administrator shall adopt rules
18 consistent with the requirements of this paragraph directing any
19 village, town or other local courts that may have eviction proceedings
20 within their subject matter jurisdiction to report their eviction
21 proceeding data to the office of court administration no less than four
22 times annually, at an interval of three months, for the purposes of
23 compiling the statewide eviction database required by this paragraph.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09062-05-1
