S 3930: Relates to submitting and tracking complaints relating to housing conditions and making such information publicly available.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3930 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to submitting and tracking complaints relating to housing conditions and making such information publicly available The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section 2 20-a to read as follows: 3 § 20-a. Submitting and tracking housing condition complaints. 1. The 4 commissioner shall establish a system that allows individuals: 5 (a) to submit, online and by telephone, complaints alleging housing 6 conditions that would, if proved, violate any law, rule or regulation 7 relating to the maintenance, use, occupancy, safety or sanitary condi- 8 tion of any building or portion thereof which is occupied, arranged or 9 intended to be occupied as a home, residence or dwelling place; and 10 (b) obtain, online and by telephone, information relating to such 11 complaints, including the status thereof. 12 2. The commissioner shall publish on the division of housing and 13 community renewal website the following information relating to the 14 complaints made pursuant to subdivision one of this section: 15 (a) the date of the complaint; 16 (b) the address of the building to which the complaint relates; 17 (c) the conditions complained of, including the law, rule or regu- 18 lation such conditions would, if proved, violate; and 19 (d) the status of the complaint. 20 3. Beginning one year after the effective date of this section, and 21 annually thereafter, the commissioner shall publish on the division of 22 housing and community renewal website a report summarizing the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05402-01-5 
 S. 3930 2 1 complaints made to the division of housing and community renewal pursu- 2 ant to subdivision one of this section during the previous year. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.