File #: Int 0921-2023    Version: * Name: Estimating the annual expenditures required to provide legal services for tenants who are subject to eviction proceedings.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/16/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to estimating the annual expenditures required to provide legal services for tenants who are subject to eviction proceedings
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Diana I. Ayala, Christopher Marte, Rita C. Joseph, Sandy Nurse, Shekar Krishnan, Alexa Avilés, Julie Won, Amanda Farías, Keith Powers , (in conjunction with the Bronx Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Summary: This bill would require the coordinator of the Office of Civil Justice to prepare the annual estimate of expenditures necessary to implement the right-to-counsel law with the assumption that individuals providing legal services are paid at parity with attorneys working for the Law Department.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 921, 2. Int. No. 921, 3. February 16, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-16-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 16, 2023

Int. No. 921

 

By Council Members Abreu, Restler, Hudson, Richardson Jordan, Ayala, Marte, Joseph, Nurse, Krishnan, Avilés, Won, Farías, Riley and Powers (in conjunction with the Bronx Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to estimating the annual expenditures required to provide legal services for tenants who are subject to eviction proceedings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision c of section 26-1302 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 54 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

c. The coordinator shall estimate annually the expenditures required for each year of implementation of the programs described by subdivisions a and b of this section. In preparing such estimate, the coordinator shall assume that designated organization employees who provide legal services are paid at parity with attorneys working for the law department, considering experience and level of services provided. Beginning December 1, 2021 and no later than each December 1 thereafter, the coordinator shall publish a summary of any changes to such estimates for expenditures.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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