Int. No. 349

By Council Members Nurse, Ayala, Won, Rivera, Stevens, Brooks-Powers and Riley

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring quarterly reports on removals involving individuals experiencing homelessness and the outcomes for those individuals

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. The opening paragraphs of subdivisions b and c of section 21-152 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 34 for the year 2024, are amended to read as follows:

b. No later than 1 month after the effective date of the local law that added this section, and quarterly thereafter, the commissioner, in consultation with the police commissioner, the commissioner of sanitation, and the commissioner of parks and recreation, shall submit to the speaker of the council, the public advocate, and the mayor, and publish on the department’s website, in a machine readable format, a report on removals conducted during the prior [month] quarter. The report shall include a table in which each row references a unique occurrence of a removal. Each such row shall include the following information and any additional information the commissioner deems appropriate, set forth in separate columns:

c. No later than 1 month after the effective date of the local law that added this section, and quarterly thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the speaker of the council, the public advocate, and the mayor, and publish on the department’s website, in a machine readable format, a report on the same-day outcomes for individuals experiencing homelessness involved in a removal during the prior [month] quarter. Such report shall include a table in which each row references a unique occurrence of a removal. Each such row shall include the following information, as well as any additional information the commissioner deems appropriate, set forth in separate columns:

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

ACK LS #15489

1/24/2024