The New York City Council - File #: Int 0704-2022

• File #: Int 0704-2022
• Version: A
• Name: Receipt of rental assistance payments.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• Committee: Committee on General Welfare
• On agenda: 9/29/2022
• Enactment date: 5/29/2023
• Law number: 2023/064
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the receipt of rental assistance payments
• Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Alexa Avilés, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Sandra Ung, Rita C. Joseph, Diana I. Ayala, Farah N. Louis, Tiffany Cabán, Kalman Yeger , Eric Dinowitz, Erik D. Bottcher, Julie Menin, Marjorie Velázquez, Keith Powers , Justin L. Brannan, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Sandy Nurse, Chi A. Ossé, Christopher Marte, Lynn C. Schulman, Oswald Feliz, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Kevin C. Riley, Shahana K. Hanif, Nantasha M. Williams, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Gale A. Brewer, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Mercedes Narcisse, Amanda Farías, Kamillah Hanks, Darlene Mealy, David M. Carr, Ari Kagan, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
• Council Member Sponsors: 37
• Summary: The bill would require the Human Resources Administration to provide landlords the option to accept rental assistance payments via an electronic transfer into a bank account.

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
5/30/2023	A	Shaun Abreu	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
5/29/2023	A	Shaun Abreu	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
4/27/2023	A	Shaun Abreu	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
4/27/2023	A	Shaun Abreu	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
4/27/2023	*	Shaun Abreu	Committee on General Welfare	Hearing Held by Committee
4/27/2023	*	Shaun Abreu	Committee on General Welfare	Amendment Proposed by Comm
4/27/2023	*	Shaun Abreu	Committee on General Welfare	Amended by Committee
4/27/2023	A	Shaun Abreu	Committee on General Welfare	Approved by Committee	Pass
12/15/2022	*	Shaun Abreu	Committee on General Welfare	Hearing Held by Committee
12/15/2022	*	Shaun Abreu	Committee on General Welfare	Laid Over by Committee
9/29/2022	*	Shaun Abreu	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
9/29/2022	*	Shaun Abreu	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 704-A

By Council Members Abreu, Avilés, Restler, Hudson, Ung, Joseph, Ayala, Louis, Cabán, Yeger, Dinowitz, Bottcher, Menin, Velázquez, Powers, Brannan, De La Rosa, Nurse, Ossé, Marte, Schulman, Feliz, Salamanca, Riley, Hanif, Williams, Brooks-Powers, Richardson Jordan, Brewer, Sanchez, Narcisse, Farías, Hanks, Mealy, Carr, Kagan and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the receipt of rental assistance payments

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-145.3 to read as follows:

§ 21-145.3 Rental assistance payments. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the term “rental assistance payments” means recurring payments made by the department to landlords on behalf of tenants pursuant to programs administered by the department, excluding state funded shelter allowance payments made pursuant to section 352.3 of title 18 of the New York codes, rules and regulations. 

b. The department shall provide landlords the option to accept rental assistance payments via an electronic transfer into a bank account.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 1 year after it becomes law.

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