New York A 5866: Relates to granting retroactive tier IV membership in the NY state and local employees' retirement system for Rebecca Leonard

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A05866 Summary:

BILL NOA05866 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORMorinello

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §143-b, Soc Serv L

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Relates to allowing public welfare officials to withhold payment of rent to landlords who owe delinquent tax liabilities to local municipalities, school districts or counties.

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BILL NOA05866 

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02/24/2025referred to social services

01/07/2026referred to social services

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5866

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing public
 welfare officials to withhold payment of rent to landlords who owe
 delinquent tax liabilities to local municipalities, school districts
 or counties

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 143-b of the social services law, as added by chap-
 2 ter 997 of the laws of 1962, subdivisions 5 and 6 as amended by chapter
 3 701 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
 4 § 143-b. Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent checks. 1. When-
 5 ever a recipient of public assistance and care is eligible for or enti-
 6 tled to receive aid or assistance in the form of a payment for or toward
 7 the rental of any housing accommodations occupied by such recipient or
 8 [his] recipient's family, such payment may be made directly by the
 9 public welfare department to the landlord.
 10 2. Every public welfare official shall have power to and may withhold
 11 the payment of any such rent in any case where [he] such official has
 12 knowledge that there exists or there is outstanding any violation of law
 13 in respect to the building containing the housing accommodations occu-
 14 pied by the person entitled to such assistance which is dangerous,
 15 hazardous [or], detrimental to life or health, or where the landlord of
 16 such housing accommodations owes delinquent tax liabilities to local
 17 municipalities, school districts or counties. A report of each such
 18 violation or delinquent tax liability shall be made to the appropriate
 19 public welfare department by the appropriate department or agency having
 20 jurisdiction over such violations or delinquent tax liabilities.
 21 3. Every public welfare official shall have the power to initiate or
 22 to request the recipient to initiate before the appropriate housing rent
 23 commission any proper proceeding for the reduction of maximum rents

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06823-01-5

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 1 applicable to any housing accommodation occupied by a person entitled to
 2 assistance in the form of a rent payment whenever such official has
 3 knowledge that essential services which such person is entitled to
 4 receive are not being maintained by the landlord or have been substan-
 5 tially reduced by the landlord.
 6 4. The public welfare department may obtain and maintain current
 7 records of violations in buildings where welfare recipients reside which
 8 relate to conditions which are dangerous, hazardous [or], detrimental to
 9 life or health, or where the landlord of such housing accommodations
 10 owes delinquent tax liabilities to local municipalities, school
 11 districts or counties.
 12 5. (a) It shall be a valid defense in any action or summary proceeding
 13 against a welfare recipient for non-payment of rent to show existing
 14 violations in the building wherein such welfare recipient resides which
 15 relate to conditions which are dangerous, hazardous [or], detrimental to
 16 life or health, or the landlord of such housing accommodations owes
 17 delinquent tax liabilities to local municipalities, school districts or
 18 counties as the basis for non-payment.
 19 (b) In any such action or proceeding the plaintiff or landlord shall
 20 not be entitled to an order or judgment awardin