File #: Int 1232-2025    Version: Name: Notifications for emergency rental assistance grant approvals.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in 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 assistance grant approvals
Sponsors: Chris Banks, Mercedes Narcisse, Farah N. Louis, Justin L. Brannan, Diana I. Ayala, Tiffany Cabán, Crystal Hudson, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Eric Dinowitz, Shahana K. Hanif
Council Member Sponsors: 10
Summary: This bill would require the Human Resources Administration (“HRA”) to make available, as a part of the application for emergency assistance grants for rental assistance, processes by which applicants may authorize HRA to send a text or email notification to the applicant and/or to the building owner or a managing agent designated by the building owner upon the approval of such application. The notification to applicants would inform them that a determination on their application has been reached and how to access the determination using ACCESS HRA. The notification to building owners or managing agents would not contain identifiable information about the applicant but would inform them how to access certain details about the determination via a secure web portal.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1232-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1232, 3. Int. No. 1232, 4. April 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-10-25, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 8. Committee Report 6/18/25, 9. Hearing Testimony 6/18/25, 10. Hearing Transcript 6/18/25, 11. Proposed Int. No. 1232-A - 9/18/25

Proposed Int. No. 1232-A

 

By Council Members Banks, Narcisse, Louis, Brannan, Ayala, Cabán, Hudson, De La Rosa, Dinowitz and Hanif

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to notifications for emergency 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 determination. 1. The department shall make available, as a part of the application for emergency assistance grants for rental assistance, a process by which any applicant may authorize the department to send an automated email or text message to the applicant upon a determination of an emergency assistance grant application for rental assistance. Such email or text message shall be sent to the email address or phone number of the applicant, provided that such applicant submitted such contact information with the application on ACCESS HRA, and such applicant has authorized such notice. Such email or text message shall inform such applicant that a determination on their application has been reached and how to access the determination using ACCESS HRA.

2. (a) The department shall make available, as a part of the application for emergency assistance grants for rental assistance, a process by which any applicant may authorize the department to send an automated email or text message to the applicant’s building owner or to a managing agent designated by the building owner to collect the rental payments of the applicant. The department shall send such email or text message upon the approval of the applicant’s emergency assistance application, provided that the applicant submitted such contact information with the application on ACCESS HRA, and provided that the applicant has authorized such notice.

(b) Such email or text message shall inform such recipient only that a rental assistance determination has been made concerning one of their tenants and shall not contain any identifiable information regarding such tenant. Such email or text message shall inform such recipient how to access the specifics of the determination via a secure web portal maintained by the department. The information accessible to such recipient via such secure web portal shall include only the name of the tenant, 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 180 days after it becomes law. APM/AC

LS #18741/18743

9/17/2025 7:05 PM