Senate Bill S7728

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the attorney general entering into contracts with fair housing entities and providing certain reports

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S7728 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8853
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §80-a, St Fin L; amd §3, Chap of 2021 (as proposed in S.945-B & A.6866)

2021-S7728 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the attorney general entering into contracts with fair housing entities and providing certain reports.

2021-S7728 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7728 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7728
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 7, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance  law,  in  relation  to  the  attorney
   general entering into contracts with fair housing entities and provid-
   ing certain reports, and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2021 amend-
   ing the real property law and the state finance law relating to estab-
   lishing  the anti-discrimination in housing fund and allocating moneys
   from fines thereto, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.  945-B
   and A. 6866, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 80-a of the  state  finance
 law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the real proper-
 ty  law and the state finance law relating to establishing the anti-dis-
 crimination in housing fund and allocating moneys from fines thereto, as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 945-B and A. 6866, are  amended
 and a new subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
   3. The moneys in the anti-discrimination in housing fund shall be kept
 separate  from  and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the
 custody of the state comptroller. Such moneys shall be made available to
 the office of the attorney  general,  for  fair  housing  testing  [and]
 THROUGH  allocation  of  grants  to  duly applying county, city, town or
 village human rights commissions, or other duly applying  county,  city,
 town,  village or not-for-profit [agencies] ENTITIES specializing in the
 prevention of unlawful discrimination in  housing,  TO  DETECT  UNLAWFUL
 DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING.
   4.  The  attorney general shall establish the application criteria AND
 QUALIFICATIONS for [such not-for-profit agencies] THE ENTITIES  for  the
 purposes  of  the  fund  as defined in SUBDIVISION THREE OF this section
 THAT WILL CONDUCT TESTING. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL MAY ENTER INTO CONTRACTS
 WITH SUCH QUALIFIED  FAIR  HOUSING  ENTITIES  WHICH  MAY  THEREAFTER  BE
 RENEWED, EXTENDED OR SUCCEEDED BY NEW CONTRACTS FROM YEAR TO YEAR IN THE
 DISCRETION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03803-05-2

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