NY State Senate Bill 2019-S2443

Senate Bill S2443

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to making municipal housing authorities subject to review and regulation of the authorities budget office; repealer

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

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2019-S2443 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4894
Current Committee:: Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2, Pub Auth L; rpld §7, Chap 913 of 1957
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S7913, A10279
2021-2022: S3156, A2650
2023-2024: S1081, A2229

2019-S2443 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to making municipal housing authorities subject to review and regulation of the authorities budget office.

2019-S2443 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2443

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to making munic-
ipal housing authorities subject to the review and regulation of the
authorities budget office; and to repeal section 7 of chapter 913 of the
laws of 1957 amending the public housing law relating to incorporating
certain provisions of the public authorities law therein, relating to
exempting municipal housing authorities from the public authorities law

 
PURPOSE:

This bill adds municipal housing authorities to the list of entities
that fall within the purview of the public authorities reform legis-
lation and the Authorities Budget Office.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1-The term "Municipal Housing of "local authority."

Section 2-Section 7 of chapter 913 of the laws of 1957 amending the
public housing law relating to incorporating authorities law therein is
repealed.

Section 3-Immediate effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The bill would strengthen the Public Authorities Reform Act by including
"municipal housing authority" within the definition of "local authori-
ty". The enactment of Public Authorities Reform Act tasked the Authori-
ties Budget Office with responsibilities such as:  prohibiting the
creation of subsidiary authorities without legislative approval (with
certain exceptions), making changes to the authority board's governing
process, creating a fiduciary duty, enabling the comptroller to approve
authority contracts, strengthening the rules on the disposition of
public authority property, providing MWBE and creating whistleblower
protections.  However, due to the oversight of a statute from 1957,
municipal public housing authorities were inadvertently excluded from
the reform legislation. This bill corrects that unintentional oversight.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S. 7913 of 2018, A. 10279 of 2018

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S2443 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2443
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to making munic-
   ipal  housing  authorities subject to the review and regulation of the
   authorities budget office; and to repeal section 7 of chapter  913  of
   the  laws of 1957 amending the public housing law relating to incorpo-
   rating certain provisions  of  the  public  authorities  law  therein,
   relating  to  exempting  municipal housing authorities from the public
   authorities law
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 2 of the public authorities law,
 as amended by chapter 257 of the laws of 2011, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2. "local authority" shall mean (a) a public authority or public bene-
 fit  corporation  created by or existing under this chapter or any other
 law of the state of New York whose members do not hold a civil office of
 the state, are not appointed by the governor or  are  appointed  by  the
 governor specifically upon the recommendation of the local government or
 governments; (b) a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with, sponsored
 by,  or  created  by  a  county, city, town or village government; (c) a
 local industrial developmental agency or authority or other local public
 benefit corporation; (d) an affiliate of such local authority; [or]  (e)
 a  land bank corporation created pursuant to article sixteen of the not-
 for-profit corporation law; OR (F) ANY MUNICIPAL HOUSING AUTHORITY.
   § 2. Section 7 of chapter 913 of the laws of 1957 amending the  public
 housing  law  relating to incorporating certain provisions of the public
 authorities law therein is REPEALED.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06253-01-9

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