Details Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 3/12/2025 1:30 PM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: Council Chambers - City Hall Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Meeting video: Video   Attachments: CLICK ANY FILE # BELOW (in blue) TO ACCESS LEGISLATION AND ATTACHMENTS, LOCATING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW MATERIALS FOR CERTAIN LAND USE APPLICATIONS, Stated Meeting Agenda Meeting Items (127) 127 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: All agenda items Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Prime Sponsor Agenda # Agenda Note Name Type Summary Action Result Action Details Multimedia       1. ROLL CALL           Roll call Not available       2. INVOCATION - Delivered by: Rev. Yaniris Gomez, Warden at Holy Rood Church Ingelesia Santa Church located at 715 West 179th Street, New York, NY 10033. Motion to spread the Invocation in full upon the record by Council Member De La Rosa.           Not available       3. ADOPTION OF MINUTES - None           Not available       4. MESSAGES & PAPERS FROM THE MAYOR - None           Not available       5. COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITY, COUNTY & BOROUGH OFFICES -           Not available M 0114-2025 *     Received, Ordered, Printed and Filed Submitting Statement of Debt Service as of January 16, 2025, in accordance with Section 242 of the New York City Charter. Communication   Rcvd, Ord, Prnt, Fld by Council   Action details Not available M 0115-2025 *     Received, Ordered, Printed and Filed Report to the Mayor and City Council on City Comptroller Audit Operations for Fiscal Year 24. Communication   Rcvd, Ord, Prnt, Fld by Council   Action details Not available M 0116-2025 *     Received, Ordered, Printed and Filed Submitting the 2024 Annual Report of the New York City Tax Commission, pursuant to Section 155 of the New York City Charter. Communication   Rcvd, Ord, Prnt, Fld by Council   Action details Not available       6. PETITIONS & COMMUNICATIONS - None           Not available       7. LAND USE CALL-UPS – None           Not available       8. COMMUNICATION FROM THE SPEAKER           Not available       9. DISCUSSION OF GENERAL ORDERS           Not available       10. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES - None           Not available       11. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES           Not available         REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH           Not available Int 0056-2024 A Chi A. Ossé   Amended and Coupled on GO Requiring the administration for children’s services to report annually on the number and placement of foster youth. Introduction This bill would require expansion of the foster youth experience survey that the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required to distribute annually to foster youth, by requiring surveying foster youth as to their LGBTQIA+ and racial identities, and requiring ACS to report annually on such responses as they relate to placement of foster youth into permanent homes. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available Int 0081-2024 A Kevin C. Riley   Amended and Coupled on GO Requiring an audit and report on foster care placement notices. Introduction The New York State Social Services Law and Family Court Act require that when a foster care placement changes, a social services agency or worker must provide the attorney for the child with notice of the change in placement. This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to conduct annual audits of foster care placement notifications. The audit would include a review of instances in which a notice was not provided as required, the time elapsed between a change in foster care placement and when the placement notice was provided, whether each notice included the information required by law, and a summary of the information that was missing from the notice. ACS would be required to report to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council, and post on the ACS website, a report with the results of its audit from the preceding year. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available Int 1052-2024 A Crystal Hudson   Amended and Coupled on GO Expanding foster youth experience surveys to include experiences related to gender expression, gender identity, sex characteristics, and sexual orientation. Introduction This bill would require expansion of the foster youth experience survey that the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required to distribute annually to foster youth to additionally include questions about the treatment of foster youth by ACS and foster care provider employees, and questions about the experiences of foster youth related to their gender expression, gender identity, sex characteristics, and sexual orientation. The bill would also require ACS to allow foster youth to express any additional feedback about their experiences. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available         REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE           Not available Int 0420-2024 A Carlina Rivera   Amended and Coupled on GO Establishing a program for child visitors to department of correction facilities. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Correction (Department) to establish a child visitor program for the purpose of improving the experience of child visitors of Department facilities, and would require annual reporting on the status of the program. The bill would also require the Department to conduct a study and publish a report on the feasibility of implementing tele-visits on weekend days without reducing the number of hours for in person visits on weekend days. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available Int 0977-2024 A Althea V. Stevens   Amended and Coupled on GO Requiring the department of probation to report on technical probation violations and all programming offered by the department. Introduction This bill would increase the frequency of Department of Probation (DOP) reports on programs offered to probationers, compliance with departmental mandates, and recidivism rates. In addition, the reports will now require information on the specific nature of technical probation violations and clarify that DOP is to provide information on all the programs they administer. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available Int 1023-2024 A Jennifer Gutiérrez   Amended and Coupled on GO Requiring the DOC to establish and operate an online scheduling system for visits to incarcerated persons. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Correction (DOC) to establish and operate an online scheduling system to facilitate visits to incarcerated individuals, provided that DOC shall not require the use of the online scheduling system to visit an incarcerated individual. At minimum, this online scheduling system must be accessible by mobile devices and computers, give the public the ability to request dates and times for jail visits, allow DOC to notify individuals if a scheduled visit needs to be canceled, and provide individuals with a reason if their request to schedule a visit is not approved. If an individual misses their scheduled appointment, they may complete the visit at a later time on that date where practicable. Starting January 30, 2028, the bill requires annual reporting on the number of people who used the online scheduling system to schedule a visit and were approved by DOC, the number of people who used the online system and were not approved by DOC, the number of people who visited an incarcerated individual and did not use the online scheduling system, and the number of complaints the department received regarding the online scheduling system for visits. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available Int 1026-2024 A Crystal Hudson   Amended and Coupled on GO Quarterly reporting requirements on visitations of incarcerated individuals and requiring the DOC to record notifications to incarcerated individuals of visitation requests. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Correction to report separately on in-person and tele-visits and provide more detailed reporting on the reasons jail visits are not completed. The bill would also require the Department of Correction to record interactions in which a person in custody is informed about a visitor and refuses to attend the visit. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available Int 1036-2024 A Sandy Nurse   Amended and Coupled on GO Requiring correctional health services to provide reports regarding people in custody who have been ordered to undergo a court-ordered forensic psychiatric examination. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Correction to issue quarterly public reports on people in custody who have been ordered to undergo a forensic psychiatric examination pursuant to Section 730 of the New York Criminal Procedure Law. Among other things, information in these reports would include the number of people in custody who have been ordered to undergo a forensic psychiatric examination, the housing area type where these individuals are being detained, and the average length of time a person deemed unfit to stand trial spends in custody before being discharged to an appropriate institution for competency restoration. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available         REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE           Not available Res 0791-2025 * Justin L. Brannan   Preconsidered - Coupled on GO Approving the new designation and changes in the designation of certain organizations to receive funding in the Expense Budget. Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available         REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS, STATE & FEDERAL LEGISLATION           Not available Int 0564-2024 A Gale A. Brewer   Amended and Coupled on GO Creating an archive of official government social media accounts. Introduction This bill would require the New York City Department of Records and Information Services to create a publicly available and searchable online database of every post to a social media platform by any official government account. In addition, all agencies and offices of elected officials would be required to annually provide to DORIS with information about official social media accounts associated with the agency or elected official. That information would be provided in a form designated by DORIS. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available         REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION           Not available Int 0216-2024 A Shahana K. Hanif   Amended and Coupled on GO Enhancing the application process for the New York city identity card. Introduction This bill would require the agency administering the New York City Identity Card (IDNYC), currently the Department of Social Services, to implement various changes to improve the IDNYC application process. These changes include: (1) showing appointments at each location for the earliest available date and time on any online appointment scheduling system; (2) developing an annual training program for IDNYC employees on the application process; (3) providing for adequate in-person application appointments to match demand for the IDNYC; (4) establishing a pilot program to permit same-day and walk-in appointments at certain IDNYC service enrollment centers; and (5) providing a process in which a supervisor is available to review documentation that has been declined during an application appointment for an IDNYC. Approved by Council Pass Action details Not available         REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LAND USE           Not available LU 0225-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240385 MMM) Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0803-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 225 - Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240385 MMM) Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0226-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240386 ZMM) Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0804-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 226 - Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240386 ZMM) Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0227-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240387 HAM) Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0805-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 227 - Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240387 HAM) Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0228-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (N 240388 ZRM) Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0806-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 228 - Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (N 240388 ZRM) Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0237-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, 1093-1095 Jerome Avenue UDAAP, Bronx(C 250091 HAX) Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0807-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 237 - Landmarks, 1093-1095 Jerome Avenue UDAAP, Bronx(C 250091 HAX) Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0241-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Zoning, Le Dive, Manhattan (D 2450119000 SWM). Land Use Application   Disapproved by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0808-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Motion to Disapprove LU 241 - Zoning, Le Dive, Manhattan (D 2450119000 SWM). Resolution   Disapproved by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0247-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, 2201 Davidson Avenue, Bronx (G 250068 NUX). Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0809-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 247 - Landmarks, 2201 Davidson Avenue, Bronx (G 250068 NUX). Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0248-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, 2201 Davidson Avenue Article XI, Bronx (G 250067 XAX). Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0810-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 248 - Landmarks, 2201 Davidson Avenue Article XI, Bronx (G 250067 XAX). Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0249-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Zoning, Queens Future Map Change and Amendment, Queens (C 250046 ZMQ). Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0811-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 249 - Zoning, Queens Future Map Change and Amendment. Queens (C 250046 ZMQ). Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available LU 0250-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Zoning, Queens Future Map Change and Amendment, Queens (C 250047 MMQ). Land Use Application   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0812-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.   Coupled on GO LU 250 - Zoning, Queens Future Map Change and Amendment, Queens (C 250047 MMQ). Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available       12. GENERAL ORDERS CALENDAR           Not available T2024-0003 *     Coupled on GO Commissioner of Deeds Commissioner of Deeds   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available         COUPLED ON GENERAL ORDERS CALENDAR           Not available       ~coupled CHILDREN AND YOUTH           Not available Int 0056-2024 A Chi A. Ossé ~coupled A and GO Requiring the administration for children’s services to report annually on the number and placement of foster youth. Introduction This bill would require expansion of the foster youth experience survey that the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required to distribute annually to foster youth, by requiring surveying foster youth as to their LGBTQIA+ and racial identities, and requiring ACS to report annually on such responses as they relate to placement of foster youth into permanent homes.     Action details Not available Int 0081-2024 A Kevin C. Riley ~coupled A and GO Requiring an audit and report on foster care placement notices. Introduction The New York State Social Services Law and Family Court Act require that when a foster care placement changes, a social services agency or worker must provide the attorney for the child with notice of the change in placement. This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to conduct annual audits of foster care placement notifications. The audit would include a review of instances in which a notice was not provided as required, the time elapsed between a change in foster care placement and when the placement notice was provided, whether each notice included the information required by law, and a summary of the information that was missing from the notice. ACS would be required to report to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council, and post on the ACS website, a report with the results of its audit from the preceding year.     Action details Not available Int 1052-2024 A Crystal Hudson ~coupled A and GO Expanding foster youth experience surveys to include experiences related to gender expression, gender identity, sex characteristics, and sexual orientation. Introduction This bill would require expansion of the foster youth experience survey that the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required to distribute annually to foster youth to additionally include questions about the treatment of foster youth by ACS and foster care provider employees, and questions about the experiences of foster youth related to their gender expression, gender identity, sex characteristics, and sexual orientation. The bill would also require ACS to allow foster youth to express any additional feedback about their experiences.     Action details Not available       ~coupled CRIMINAL JUSTICE           Not available Int 0420-2024 A Carlina Rivera ~coupled A and GO Establishing a program for child visitors to department of correction facilities. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Correction (Department) to establish a child visitor program for the purpose of improving the experience of child visitors of Department facilities, and would require annual reporting on the status of the program. The bill would also require the Department to conduct a study and publish a report on the feasibility of implementing tele-visits on weekend days without reducing the number of hours for in person visits on weekend days.     Action details Not available Int 0977-2024 A Althea V. Stevens ~coupled A and GO Requiring the department of probation to report on technical probation violations and all programming offered by the department. Introduction This bill would increase the frequency of Department of Probation (DOP) reports on programs offered to probationers, compliance with departmental mandates, and recidivism rates. In addition, the reports will now require information on the specific nature of technical probation violations and clarify that DOP is to provide information on all the programs they administer.     Action details Not available Int 1023-2024 A Jennifer Gutiérrez ~coupled A and GO Requiring the DOC to establish and operate an online scheduling system for visits to incarcerated persons. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Correction (DOC) to establish and operate an online scheduling system to facilitate visits to incarcerated individuals, provided that DOC shall not require the use of the online scheduling system to visit an incarcerated individual. At minimum, this online scheduling system must be accessible by mobile devices and computers, give the public the ability to request dates and times for jail visits, allow DOC to notify individuals if a scheduled visit needs to be canceled, and provide individuals with a reason if their request to schedule a visit is not approved. If an individual misses their scheduled appointment, they may complete the visit at a later time on that date where practicable. Starting January 30, 2028, the bill requires annual reporting on the number of people who used the online scheduling system to schedule a visit and were approved by DOC, the number of people who used the online system and were not approved by DOC, the number of people who visited an incarcerated individual and did not use the online scheduling system, and the number of complaints the department received regarding the online scheduling system for visits.     Action details Not available Int 1026-2024 A Crystal Hudson ~coupled A and GO Quarterly reporting requirements on visitations of incarcerated individuals and requiring the DOC to record notifications to incarcerated individuals of visitation requests. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Correction to report separately on in-person and tele-visits and provide more detailed reporting on the reasons jail visits are not completed. The bill would also require the Department of Correction to record interactions in which a person in custody is informed about a visitor and refuses to attend the visit.     Action details Not available Int 1036-2024 A Sandy Nurse ~coupled A and GO Requiring correctional health services to provide reports regarding people in custody who have been ordered to undergo a court-ordered forensic psychiatric examination. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Correction to issue quarterly public reports on people in custody who have been ordered to undergo a forensic psychiatric examination pursuant to Section 730 of the New York Criminal Procedure Law. Among other things, information in these reports would include the number of people in custody who have been ordered to undergo a forensic psychiatric examination, the housing area type where these individuals are being detained, and the average length of time a person deemed unfit to stand trial spends in custody before being discharged to an appropriate institution for competency restoration.     Action details Not available       ~coupled FINANCE           Not available Res 0791-2025 * Justin L. Brannan ~coupled Preconsidered – GO Approving the new designation and changes in the designation of certain organizations to receive funding in the Expense Budget. Resolution       Action details Not available       ~coupled GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS, STATE & FEDERAL LEGISLATION           Not available Int 0564-2024 A Gale A. Brewer ~coupled A and GO Creating an archive of official government social media accounts. Introduction This bill would require the New York City Department of Records and Information Services to create a publicly available and searchable online database of every post to a social media platform by any official government account. In addition, all agencies and offices of elected officials would be required to annually provide to DORIS with information about official social media accounts associated with the agency or elected official. That information would be provided in a form designated by DORIS.     Action details Not available       ~coupled IMMIGRATION           Not available Int 0216-2024 A Shahana K. Hanif ~coupled A and GO Enhancing the application process for the New York city identity card. Introduction This bill would require the agency administering the New York City Identity Card (IDNYC), currently the Department of Social Services, to implement various changes to improve the IDNYC application process. These changes include: (1) showing appointments at each location for the earliest available date and time on any online appointment scheduling system; (2) developing an annual training program for IDNYC employees on the application process; (3) providing for adequate in-person application appointments to match demand for the IDNYC; (4) establishing a pilot program to permit same-day and walk-in appointments at certain IDNYC service enrollment centers; and (5) providing a process in which a supervisor is available to review documentation that has been declined during an application appointment for an IDNYC.     Action details Not available       ~coupled LAND USE           Not available Res 0803-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 225 - Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240385 MMM) Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0804-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 226 - Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240386 ZMM) Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0805-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 227 - Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (C 240387 HAM) Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0806-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 228 - Landmarks, The Beacon, Manhattan (N 240388 ZRM) Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0807-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 237 - Landmarks, 1093-1095 Jerome Avenue UDAAP, Bronx(C 250091 HAX) Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0808-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled Disapprove LU 241 - Zoning, Le Dive, Manhattan (D 2450119000 SWM). Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0809-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 247 - Landmarks, 2201 Davidson Avenue, Bronx (G 250068 NUX). Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0810-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 248 - Landmarks, 2201 Davidson Avenue Article XI, Bronx (G 250067 XAX). Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0811-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 249 - Zoning, Queens Future Map Change and Amendment. Queens (C 250046 ZMQ). Resolution       Action details Not available Res 0812-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~coupled GO LU 250 - Zoning, Queens Future Map Change and Amendment, Queens (C 250047 MMQ). Resolution       Action details Not available       ~coupled GENERAL ORDERS CALENDAR           Not available T2024-0003 *   ~coupled GO Commissioner of Deeds Commissioner of Deeds       Action details Not available                   Pass Not available       13. INTRODUCTION & READING OF BILLS (SEE BELOW)           Not available       14. DISCUSSION OF RESOLUTIONS           Not available       15. RESOLUTIONS           Not available Res 0041-2024 A Alexa Avilés   Amended and Adopted by the Committee on General Welfare Create the New York State Working Families Tax Credit (S.2082/A.3474). Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0057-2024 A Diana I. Ayala   Amended and Adopted by the Committee on General Welfare Create a program to provide food benefits for those not eligible for existing benefits, including anyone over 55 meeting income eligibility. Resolution   Approved, by Council   Action details Not available Res 0714-2025 A Shahana K. Hanif   Amended and Adopted by the Committee on Immigration New York for All Act (A.3506/S.2235). Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0717-2025 * Crystal Hudson   Adopted by the Committee on Immigration Access to Representation Act, which establishes the right to legal counsel in immigration court proceedings and provides for the administration thereof (A.270/S.141). Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available Res 0740-2025 * Lincoln Restler   Adopted by the Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Eliminate the rule that provides whenever a city charter commission puts a proposal on the local ballot, other referendum proposals are barred from the ballot (S.590/A.3665). Resolution   Approved, by Council Pass Action details Not available       16. GENERAL DISCUSSION           Not available       17. EXTENSION OF REMARKS           Not available         INTRODUCTION AND READING OF BILLS - Pursuant to Section 33-a of the New York City Charter, the New York City Council may vote on the following items no earlier than 30 days from the date of this notice. The New York City Council reserves the right to vote without the notice required pursuant to Section 33-a on any proposed local laws that do not relate to the public safety operations of the New York City Police Department, the Fire Department or the Department of Correction.           Not available Res 0791-2025 * Justin L. Brannan ~SPONSOR Preconsidered - Finance Approving the new designation and changes in the designation of certain organizations to receive funding in the Expense Budget. Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1205-2025 * Gale A. Brewer ~SPONSOR Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Requiring agencies to plan for federal government shutdowns. Introduction This bill would require the Commissioner of Emergency Management to work with relevant agencies to develop plans to prepare for a federal government shutdown by September 1, 2025. The Commissioner would be required to assess the plans when they are activated and again at least once every two years. The bill requires the Commissioner to report any changes to the plans to the City Council no more than 60 days after the assessment is completed. The Commissioner would also be required to publicly post any plans on the department’s website no more than 30 days after the plan is submitted to the City Council. The Commissioner would not have to report any plans that could compromise public safety. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1206-2025 * Gale A. Brewer ~SPONSOR Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Complaints and penalties applicable to rules requiring a pre-collection storage area and containers for source separated organic waste. Introduction This bill would require the 311 customer service center to add a 311 service request category related to a residential building owner’s violation of the requirement to provide a pre-collection storage area and containers for source separated organic waste. The proposed legislation would also increase civil penalties applicable to such a violation committed by the owner of a residential building with 4 or more dwelling units. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0792-2025 * Tiffany Cabán ~SPONSOR Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations Declaring March 25 as Greek Cultural Appreciation and Independence Day annually. Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1207-2025 * Carmen N. De La Rosa ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Allowing for time spent in an apprenticeship to count towards the supervised practical experience time requirement for the granting of high-pressure boiler operating engineer licenses. Introduction This bill would allow time spent in an apprenticeship to count towards the three-year supervised practical experience requirement for gaining a high-pressure boiler operating engineer license. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1208-2025 * Jennifer Gutiérrez ~SPONSOR General Welfare Report on air conditioning in homeless shelters. Introduction This bill would require the Commissioner of Homeless Services, in coordination with the Commissioner of Social Services, Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development, and Commissioner of Youth and Community Development, to issue a one-time report to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council on the availability of air conditioning in homeless shelters. The report would, in part, include information on which shelters have any air conditioning, which have air conditioning in only some areas of the shelter, which have air conditioning throughout the shelter, the type of air conditioning provided, which shelters have air conditioning that needs repair, which shelters installed air conditioning during the past 12 months, and which shelters are planning to install air conditioning within the next 12 months. The report would have to be posted on the relevant agencies’ websites. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1209-2025 * Shekar Krishnan ~SPONSOR Fire and Emergency Management Wildfire mitigation plan. Introduction This bill would require the office of emergency management to assess the risks to the city from wildfires and to devise strategies to proactively mitigate those risks and to reduce potential losses to human life and property resulting from wildfires. The bill would require the office to report every five years on the results of that assessment. This reporting requirement could be satisfied by including wildfires in the city’s hazard mitigation plan. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1210-2025 * Shekar Krishnan ~SPONSOR Civil and Human Rights Increasing the maximum civil penalty for failure to comply with an order issued by the New York city commission on human rights. Introduction This bill would increase the maximum civil penalty that can be imposed for failure to comply with an order issued by the Commission on Human Rights. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1211-2025 * Shekar Krishnan ~SPONSOR Civil and Human Rights Civil penalties for discrimination based on lawful source of income. Introduction This bill would require the City Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) to impose civil penalties for acts of discrimination based on lawful source of income for housing accommodations. Where CCHR finds such a discriminatory practice, in a multiple dwelling with 1 to 100 units the civil penalty would be $5,000 to $125,000, in a multiple dwelling with 101 to 500 units the civil penalty would be $50,000 to $125,000, and in a multiple dwelling with more than 500 units the civil penalty would be $75,000 to $125,000. Where CCHR finds that such a discriminatory practice results from a willful, wanton or malicious act, in a multiple dwelling with 1 to 100 units the civil penalty would be $10,000 to $250,000, in a multiple dwelling with 101 to 500 units, the civil penalty would be $100,000 to $250,000, and in a multiple dwelling with more than 500 units the civil penalty would be $150,000 to $250,000. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1212-2025 * Shekar Krishnan ~SPONSOR Civil and Human Rights Prohibiting consumer credit history from being used in connection with certain subsidized housing accommodations. Introduction Under the New York City Human Rights Law, discrimination based on a lawful source of income is illegal. This bill would clarify that, where a tenant’s housing costs are covered in full or in part by programs like Section 8 or CityFHEPS, prospective landlords may not request, seek access to, or use a tenant’s consumer credit history as a condition to a lease agreement. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1213-2025 * Shekar Krishnan ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Source of income discrimination by property owners as a form of harassment for the purposes of a certification of no harassment. Introduction This bill would amend the definitions of harassment in the Housing Maintenance Code to include source of income discrimination as a form of harassment, such that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development would not be permitted to issue a Certification of No Harassment to a property owner, unless the department concludes there has been no source of income discrimination by such property owner in the relevant statutory period. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1214-2025 * Shekar Krishnan ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Providing information about lawful source of income discrimination in the online property owner registry. Introduction This bill would require the inclusion of information about discrimination based on lawful source of income in the online property owner registry. This information would include the amount of any penalties imposed for engaging in source of income discrimination. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1215-2025 * Shekar Krishnan ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Criteria used in tenant screening reports Introduction Under current city law property owners or their agents are required to disclose whether they will obtain a tenant screening report that may report on a prospective tenant’s credit, criminal record, history in housing court, or other factors. If the applicant is denied, the landlord or agent must disclose that the denial was based on such a report and instruct the applicant on how to obtain a copy of the report. This bill would require the landlord or agent to also provide applicants with the criteria they use to reject applicants based on the tenant screening reports. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1216-2025 * Shahana K. Hanif ~SPONSOR Women and Gender Equity Requiring cosmetology establishments to display a poster about gender-based violence. Introduction This bill would require the Office to End Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV) to create posters that provides information about gender-based violence services and ways to identify signs of gender-based violence and to provide such posters to hair, nail, and skincare salons at no cost. This bill would also require hair, nail, and skincare salons to display such posters. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0793-2025 * Lynn C. Schulman ~SPONSOR Preconsidered - Women and Gender Equity Provide additional protections for the sensitive health information of patients (S.1633/A.2613) Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0794-2025 * Sandra Ung ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Limit rent increases for residential ground lease cooperative apartment buildings and provide certain rights to such cooperatives (A.2619/S.2433). Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0795-2025 * Nantasha M. Williams ~SPONSOR Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations Designate Kwanzaa as a public holiday in New York. Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0796-2025 * Nantasha M. Williams ~SPONSOR Aging Establishing a senior dental services grant program (S.4334). Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0797-2025 * Nantasha M. Williams ~SPONSOR Finance Phase out the school tax reduction credit for higher earners and implement a progressive child tax credit (S. 2238) Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0798-2025 * Nantasha M. Williams ~SPONSOR General Welfare Provide assistance for SUNY and CUNY students experiencing homelessness (S.4247/A.9615). Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0799-2025 * Nantasha M. Williams ~SPONSOR Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Direct the state board of elections to study and evaluate the use of blockchain technology to protect voter records and election results (A. 2561). Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0800-2025 * Nantasha M. Williams ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Subsidizing closing costs for low income current tenants who are purchasing a home (S.3068). Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0801-2025 * Nantasha M. Williams ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Granting legal services to small property owners (A.1300/S.127) Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Res 0802-2025 * Julie Won ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Protecting tenants displaced due to fire (S.3886/A.5427). Resolution   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1217-2025 * Susan Zhuang ~SPONSOR Housing and Buildings Building inspections and reporting following complaints related to rats and other pests Introduction This bill would require DOHMH to perform a building inspection in response to any 311 complaints relating to rats, mice, pests, or conditions which might attract them within 10 days of such complaint being made. The bill would also require that a record of such inspections include a description of the building’s state and a listing of the inspector’s observations; such records would be made publicly available online. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available Int 1218-2025 * Susan Zhuang ~SPONSOR Transportation and Infrastructure Requiring the installation of signs indicating the presence of every speed camera. Introduction This bill would require signs to be installed near each speed camera in the city that would indicate the presence of the device and be visible to traffic approaching from all directions. Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available LU 0251-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~SPONSOR Preconsidered - Landmarks, Public Sitings, and Dispositions Landmarks, 547-Seat Primary School Facility, Bronx (G 250069 SCX). Land Use Application   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available LU 0251-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, 547-Seat Primary School Facility, Bronx (G 250069 SCX). Land Use Application   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available LU 0252-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~SPONSOR Preconsidered - Landmarks, Public Sitings, and Dispositions Landmarks, West 128th-129th Street Cluster Article XI, Manhattan (G 250071 XAM). Land Use Application   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available LU 0252-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, West 128th-129th Street Cluster Article XI, Manhattan (G 250071 XAM). Land Use Application   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available LU 0253-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr. ~SPONSOR Preconsidered - Landmarks, Public Sitings, and Dispositions Landmarks, West 128th-129th Street Cluster (ANCP) UDAAP, Manhattan (G 250070 NUM). Land Use Application   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available LU 0253-2025 * Rafael Salamanca, Jr.     Landmarks, West 128th-129th Street Cluster (ANCP) UDAAP, Manhattan (G 250070 NUM). Land Use Application   Referred to Comm by Council   Action details Not available