File #: Int 1232-2025    Version: * Name: Notifications for emergency rental assistance grant approvals.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 4/10/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to notifications for emergency rental assistance grant approvals
Sponsors: Chris Banks, Mercedes Narcisse, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the Human Resources Administration (“HRA”) to provide an automated text message or email notification upon the approval of an application for the Emergency Assistance Grant Program pertaining to rental assistance. Such approval notification shall be delivered to the tenant applying for assistance and the building owner or managing agent designated by the building owner to collect rental payments from the applicant, to the extent that such information is provided in the application. Notifications would include information on the monetary amount of the award via the emergency assistance grant, an estimated issuance date for the assistance, and the mode of delivery for the corresponding check.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1232, 2. Int. No. 1232, 3. April 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1232

 

By Council Members Banks, Narcisse and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to notifications for emergency rental assistance grant approvals

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 21-150 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 38 for the year 2022, is amended to add new subdivision h, to read as follows:

h. Notification of emergency assistance grant application issuance. HRA shall provide an automated electronic mail or text message upon the approval of an emergency assistance grant application for rental assistance. Such electronic mail or text message shall be sent to the email address or phone number of both the applicant and the building owner, or managing agent designated by the building owner to collect the rental payments of the applicant, to the extent that such information was provided in the submitted application on ACCESS HRA. Such electronic mail or text message shall include the rental assistance amount, an estimated issuance date for the rental assistance, and the delivery method of the rental assistance.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law. APM

LS #18741/18743

4/2/2025 2:30 PM