File #: Int 0703-2022    Version: Name: Requiring information on the timeliness of city-funded rental payments.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 9/29/2022
Enactment date: 11/5/2023 Law number: 2023/145
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring information on the timeliness of city-funded rental payments
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Alexa Avilés, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Sandra Ung, Diana I. Ayala, Farah N. Louis, Tiffany Cabán, Kalman Yeger , Erik D. Bottcher, Julie Menin, Shekar Krishnan, Marjorie Velázquez, Keith Powers , Sandy Nurse, Justin L. Brannan, Eric Dinowitz, Carmen N. De La Rosa, 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, Amanda Farías, Carlina Rivera , David M. Carr
Council Member Sponsors: 31
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Social Services to, beginning March 1, 2024, submit to the speaker of the council and post on its website a quarterly report on the timeliness of CityFHEPS rental assistance payments. The report would include a table in which each row represents a unique voucher and would be required to include, at minimum, the rental assistance payment amount, the payment month, the zip code of the recipient, whether the payment was timely or late and why, and a description of steps to ensure timely payment in the future.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 703-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 703, 3. Int. No. 703, 4. September 29, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-29-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 29, 2022, 7. Committee Report 12/15/22, 8. Hearing Testimony 12/15/22, 9. Hearing Transcript 12/15/22, 10. Proposed Int. No. 703-A - 9/25/23, 11. Committee Report 10/5/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 10/5/23, 13. October 5, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 14. Fiscal Impact Statement, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-5-23
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11/6/2023AShaun Abreu City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/5/2023AShaun Abreu Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
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10/5/2023AShaun Abreu City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/5/2023*Shaun Abreu Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/5/2023*Shaun Abreu Committee on General Welfare Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/5/2023*Shaun Abreu Committee on General Welfare Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/5/2023AShaun Abreu Committee on General Welfare Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
12/15/2022*Shaun Abreu Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/15/2022*Shaun Abreu Committee on General Welfare Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/2022*Shaun Abreu City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/2022*Shaun Abreu City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 703-A

 

By Council Members Abreu, Avilés, Restler, Hudson, Ung, Ayala, Louis, Cabán, Yeger, Bottcher, Menin, Krishnan, Velázquez, Powers, Nurse, Brannan, Dinowitz, De La Rosa, Ossé, Marte, Schulman, Feliz, Salamanca, Riley, Hanif, Williams, Brooks-Powers, Richardson Jordan, Rivera and Carr

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring information on the timeliness of city-funded rental 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 21-145.4 to read as follows:

§ 21-145.4 Reporting on CityFHEPS rental assistance payments. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

CityFHEPS rental assistance payments. The term “CityFHEPS rental assistance payments” means recurring payments made by the department to landlords on behalf of tenants pursuant to chapter 10 of title 68 of the rules of the city of New York.

Scheduled payment date. The term “scheduled payment date” means the date when payments are to be made in accordance with section 10-14(b) of chapter 10 of title 68 of the rules of the city of New York.

b. CityFHEPS rental assistance payments report. Beginning on March 1, 2024 and quarterly thereafter, the department shall submit to the speaker of the council and post on its website a report on the timeliness of CityFHEPS rental assistance payments for the prior completed quarter. The report shall include a table in which each row represents a unique rental voucher and shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:

1. Rental assistance payment amount;

2. Rental assistance payment month;

3. Zip code of rental assistance recipient;

4. Whether rental assistance payment was timely or sent after the scheduled payment date, and reason for late payment; and

5. Where the late payment is caused by the agency, a description of the actions the department will take to ensure rental assistance payments are consistently made on or before the scheduled payment date for each late payment recipient.

c. No information that is otherwise required to be reported pursuant to this section shall be reported in a manner that would violate any applicable law relating to the privacy of individual information.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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