| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2014 |
committed to rules |
| Jun 09, 2014 |
advanced to third reading |
| Jun 03, 2014 |
2nd report cal. |
| Jun 02, 2014 |
1st report cal.1057 |
| May 15, 2014 |
referred to housing, construction and community development |
Senate Bill S7553
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C) 24th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) Senate District
2013-S7553 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-S7553 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7553
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public housing law, in relation to
requiring that the New York city housing authority include a notice
informing a prospective tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal
occupants to the lease or renewal lease, and provide, upon request, a
tenant with a form to add additional legal occupants
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To give tenants notice of their
ability to add legal occupants to their leases, and to ensure that
requests for documents to add additional legal occupants are
fulfilled.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This bill would require the New York
City Housing Authority to include a notice informing a prospective
tenant or current tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to the
lease or renewal lease. The notice shall be separate from the lease,
clear and conspicuous, and written in boldface font, sixteen-point or
greater. This bill would also require the Authority to, within seven
days of receipt of a tenant's request for a form to add additional
legal occupants, provide such tenant with the appropriate form along
with a notice informing the tenant of the right to contest the denial
of any occupancy permission request.
JUSTIFICATION: Recognizing that, during the course of a NYCHA
tenant's residency, family composition may change, NYCHA has a process
2013-S7553 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
7553
I N S E N A T E
May 15, 2014
___________
Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 requiring that
the New York city housing authority include a notice informing a
prospective tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to
the lease or renewal lease, and provide, upon request, a tenant with a
form to add additional legal occupants
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivisions 7, 8 and 9 of section 402 of the public hous-
ing law are relettered subdivisions 8, 9 and 10 and a new subdivision 7
is added to read as follows:
7. A. THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY SHALL INCLUDE, ALONG WITH
EVERY LEASE OR RENEWAL LEASE OFFERED TO A PROSPECTIVE TENANT OR CURRENT
TENANT, A SEPARATE, CLEAR AND CONSPICUOUS NOTICE, IN AT LEAST
SIXTEEN-POINT BOLDFACE TYPE, CONCERNING THE TENANT'S ABILITY TO ADD
ADDITIONAL LEGAL OCCUPANTS TO THE LEASE AGREEMENT.
B. UPON RECEIPT OF A TENANT'S REQUEST FOR A FORM TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL
LEGAL OCCUPANT, THE AUTHORITY SHALL, WITHIN SEVEN DAYS, PROVIDE THE
TENANT WITH THE APPROPRIATE FORM, ALONG WITH A NOTICE INFORMING THE
TENANT OF THE RIGHT TO CONTEST THE DENIAL OF ANY OCCUPANCY PERMISSION
REQUEST.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13541-02-4
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