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                                  150--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sens. THOMAS, MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Housing,
   Construction and Community Development -- recommitted to the Committee
   on  Housing, Construction and Community Development in accordance with
   Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to establish a housing task force addressing affordable housing
   for millennials in suburban counties
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  A  housing  task  force to address affordable housing for
 millennials in suburban counties is hereby established. The role of  the
 task force includes, but is not limited to:
   (a) facilitating interagency planning and policy;
   (b)  reviewing  specific agency initiatives for affordable housing for
 millennials ages 25 to 35;
   (c) providing a  continuing  forum  to  discuss  concerns  and  issues
 related to the formulation of state policy designed to help address this
 issue;
   (d)  developing  linkages and partnerships with housing developers and
 other appropriate entities to address the problem of lack of  affordable
 housing for millennials; and
   (e) identifying existing state initiatives that would aid in providing
 millennials with resources to find affordable housing.
   §  2. On or before two years after the effective date of this act, the
 task force shall issue its findings, any legislative recommendations  or
 proposed state policy changes it deems necessary to the governor, tempo-
 rary  president  of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader
 of the senate, and minority leader of the assembly.  The task force  may
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 also  issue  interim  findings, legislative recommendations, or proposed
 state policy changes it deems necessary at any time.
   §  3.  The  task  force shall consist of a total of twelve members and
 shall be appointed as follows: six members shall  be  appointed  by  the
 governor,  including  one  member recommended by the commissioner of the
 division of housing and community renewal, one member recommended by the
 commissioner of the  department  of  economic  development,  one  member
 recommended  jointly  by the housing finance agency and the state of New
 York mortgage agency, and one member nominated by  each  of  the  county
 executives  of  Westchester,  Nassau,  and Suffolk counties; two members
 shall be appointed by the temporary president of the  senate,  including
 one  member recommended by the chair of the senate housing, construction
 and community development committee; one member shall  be  appointed  by
 the minority leader of the senate; two members shall be appointed by the
 speaker  of  the assembly, including one member recommended by the chair
 of the assembly housing committee; and one member shall be appointed  by
 the  minority  leader  of  the assembly.   All members of the task force
 shall have experience in  or  represent  the  following  areas:  housing
 providers  and  associations,  real  estate  providers and associations,
 mortgage providers and associations and millennial consumers.
   § 4. The members appointed upon the recommendation of the county exec-
 utives of Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties pursuant  to  section
 three of this act shall constitute a sub-task force to focus on afforda-
 ble housing for millennials in Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties.
 Such sub-task force may also include other members of the task force who
 may  be  appointed  to serve on the sub-task force by the chairperson of
 the task force at the chairperson's discretion.
   § 5. One of the appointments by the governor  shall  serve  as  chair-
 person of the task force.
   §  6.  The  members of the task force shall serve without compensation
 and the empire state development corporation shall  be  responsible  for
 any expenses incurred by the task force.
   §  7.  All  departments, divisions, bureaus, commissions, districts or
 agencies of the state or any political subdivisions  thereof  shall,  at
 the request of the chairperson, provide the task force with such facili-
 ties, assistance and data as will enable the task force to carry out its
 powers and duties.
   §  8.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.