Assembly Bill A4306

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires certain public housing authorities to establish an innocent tenant protection act applicable to tenants of public and federally assisted housing

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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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2015-A4306 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2525
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง711-a, RPAP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5539
2011-2012: A3580
2013-2014: A3446, S5475
2017-2018: A4369, S2203
2019-2020: A4991, S5026
2021-2022: S5430
2023-2024: S6847

2015-A4306 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes an innocent tenant protection act applicable to tenants of public and federally assisted housing; prevents honest, hardworking family members from being evicted when other family members are involved in illegal acts.

2015-A4306 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4306

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 30, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. TITUS, SCARBOROUGH, COOK, ROBINSON, WRIGHT --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M.   of A.  CLARK,  FARRELL,  GLICK,  GOTTFRIED,
  LAVINE,  PERRY,  RIVERA,  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend the  real  property  actions  and  proceedings  law,  in
  relation  to  requiring that certain public housing authorities estab-
  lish an innocent tenant protection act applicable to tenants of public
  and federally assisted housing

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that it is imper-
ative  that  the  forty-nine  public  housing  authorities  in the state
provide that any criminal activities that threaten the health, safety or
right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises, engaged in by a  tenant  of
public or federally assisted housing, and members of the tenants' house-
hold,  or any guest or other person under the tenants' control, shall be
cause for termination of tenancy. The legislature further finds that law
abiding tenants are vulnerable to "One-Strike" evictions given the poli-
cy's breadth and the United States Supreme Court's  decision  in  UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT V.  DAVIS. Anyone who
leases  public or assisted housing is a potential target of "One-Strike"
evictions. It is of little consequence that a tenant may be law abiding,
despise drug activity or have made his or her home a drug-free  environ-
ment.  Any  link to guest or family members involved in drug activity on
or off the public housing premises can trigger eviction.  Therefore  the
legislature  finds  the  adoption  of  an innocent tenant protection act
vital to law abiding tenants of public and federally assisted housing in
New York state.
  S 2. The real property actions  and  proceedings  law  is  amended  by
adding a new section 711-a to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06611-01-5

              

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