Assembly Bill A7367

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Directs public welfare officials to withhold rent from a landlord for violation of the warranty of habitability

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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-A7367 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6347
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §143-b, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A678

2021-A7367 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs public welfare officials to withhold rent from a landlord for violation of the warranty of habitability; directs public welfare officials to seek a diminution of rent owed based on the duration of such violation.

2021-A7367 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7367
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to directing public
   welfare  officials  to  withhold rent from a landlord for violation of
   the warranty of habitability
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 143-b of the social services law, as added by chap-
 ter  997 of the laws of 1962, subdivisions 5 and 6 as amended by chapter
 701 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
   § 143-b. Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent checks.  1. When-
 ever a recipient of public assistance and care is eligible for or  enti-
 tled to receive aid or assistance in the form of a payment for or toward
 the  rental  of any housing accommodations occupied by such recipient or
 [his] THEIR family, such payment may be  made  directly  by  the  public
 welfare department to the landlord.
   2.  Every  public welfare official shall [have power to and may] with-
 hold the payment of any such rent in any case where [he has]  THEY  HAVE
 knowledge that there exists or there is outstanding any violation of law
 in  respect  to the building containing the housing accommodations occu-
 pied by the person entitled to  such  assistance  which  is  [dangerous,
 hazardous  or detrimental to life or health] A VIOLATION OF THE WARRANTY
 OF HABITABILITY PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO  HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE-B  OF  THE
 REAL PROPERTY LAW.  A report of each such violation shall be made to the
 appropriate  public  welfare department by the appropriate department or
 agency having jurisdiction over violations.
   3. Every public welfare official shall [have the power to] initiate or
 [to] request the recipient to initiate before  the  appropriate  housing
 rent commission any proper proceeding for the reduction of maximum rents
 applicable to any housing accommodation occupied by a person entitled to
 assistance  in  the  form  of  a rent payment whenever such official has
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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