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A2033Assembly2017-2018 Session

Residents Must Approve New Fines

Official title

“Relates to regulations authorizing the issuance of financial penalties”

Sponsor Joseph LentolAD-50Affects Housing
Status
In Assembly Committee
Housing
Impact
6/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Housing

What's happening

This bill requires that new financial penalty regulations in public housing get approval from both affected residents and the board after notification.

Why it matters

  1. Empowers public housing residents. by giving them a direct say over new financial penalties, ensuring that regulations cannot be imposed without majority resident approval via a paper ballot.

  2. Increases transparency and accountability. by requiring detailed notification to all affected residents, including specifics about the penalty, who enforces it, and how it would be collected.

  3. Adds a check on regulatory power. by mandating that both residents and the board of directors must approve new penalty rules, preventing unilateral decisions by housing authorities.

  4. May slow or complicate the implementation of new penalty policies. , as both resident and board consent must be obtained, potentially leading to more negotiation and resident engagement in rule-making.

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Who cares

  • Public housing residents

    Affected residents would receive detailed notice of proposed regulations authorizing financial penalties, and a majority would have to approve them by paper ballot.

  • Public housing authorities and other entities operating under the Public Housing Law

    They could not adopt new regulations authorizing financial penalties without resident notification, resident approval and board approval.

  • Boards of directors of public housing entities

    A majority of the board would have to approve any new regulation authorizing financial penalties.

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Residents Must Approve New Fines

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Joseph Lentol

Assembly Member · Assembly District 50

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Referred to housing
  2. Referred to housing

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2033

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 17, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to regulations authorizing the issuance of financial penalties

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section 229 to read as follows:

§ 229. Regulations. No authority, office or other entity operating pursuant to this chapter shall enact any new regulation authorizing the issuance of a financial penalty unless:

(a) all affected residents are notified of the proposed regulation with a detailed description of (i) the penalty, (ii) who has the authority to issue such penalty, and (iii) how such penalty shall be collected;

(b) a majority of the affected residents approves such regulation through a paper ballot; and

(c) a majority of the board of directors of such entity approves such regulation.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD03396-01-7

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