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S00945 Summary:

BILL NOS00945B
 
SAME ASSAME AS A06866
 
SPONSORGAUGHRAN
 
COSPNSRBIAGGI, COMRIE, HARCKHAM, KAPLAN, KAVANAGH, MANNION
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §441-c, RP L; add §80-a, St Fin L
 
Establishes the anti-discrimination in housing fund and allocates moneys from fines thereto.
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S00945 Actions:

BILL NOS00945B
 
01/06/2021REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
01/28/2021AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO JUDICIARY
01/28/2021PRINT NUMBER 945A
02/01/2021REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
02/02/2021ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.226
02/03/2021AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 945B
02/08/2021PASSED SENATE
02/08/2021DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
02/08/2021referred to judiciary
06/08/2021substituted for a6866
06/08/2021ordered to third reading rules cal.592
06/08/2021passed assembly
06/08/2021returned to senate
12/10/2021DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
12/21/2021SIGNED CHAP.687
12/21/2021APPROVAL MEMO.74
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S00945 Committee Votes:

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S00945 Floor Votes:

DATE:06/08/2021Assembly Vote  YEA/NAY: 138/11
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Clark
Yes
Frontus
Yes
Lalor
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Colton
Yes
Galef
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Simon
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Lawler
Yes
Perry
Yes
Simpson
No
Angelino
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gallahan
No
Lemondes
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Quart
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
Darling
Yes
Glick
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stern
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Davila
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
No
Manktelow
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Barron
Yes
De La Rosa
No
Goodell
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Ramos
No
Tague
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tannousis
Yes
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Griffin
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
No
Blankenbush
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Gunther
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Thiele
No
Brabenec
Yes
Dinowitz
No
Hawley
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Rivera J
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Braunstein
No
DiPietro
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Miller B
Yes
Rivera JD
Yes
Walczyk
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Durso
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Miller M
Yes
Rodriguez
Yes
Walker
Yes
Brown
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Burdick
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Niou
Yes
Salka
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Williams
Yes
Byrne
Yes
Fernandez
Yes
Jones
Yes
Norris
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Byrnes
No
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Joyner
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Schmitt
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Cahill
ER
Forrest
Yes
Kelles
Yes
Otis
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Carroll
No
Friend
Yes
Kim
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Mr. Speaker

‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
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S00945 Memo:

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S00945 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         945--B
            Cal. No. 226
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. GAUGHRAN, KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Judiciary  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said  commit-
          tee  and  committed  to  the  Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
          order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real property law and the state finance law, in
          relation to establishing the anti-discrimination in housing  fund  and
          allocating moneys from fines thereto
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 441-c of the real
     2  property law, as amended by chapter 131 of the laws of 2020, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a)  The  department  of state may revoke the license of a real estate
     5  broker or salesman or suspend the same, for such period as  the  depart-
     6  ment may deem proper, or in lieu thereof may impose a fine not exceeding
     7  [one]  two thousand dollars payable to the department of state, provided
     8  that fifty percent of all moneys received by the department of state for
     9  such fines shall be payable to the anti-discrimination in  housing  fund
    10  established  pursuant to section eighty-a of the state finance law, or a
    11  reprimand upon  conviction  of  the  licensee  of  a  violation  of  any
    12  provision  of this article, or for a material misstatement in the appli-
    13  cation for such license, or if such licensee has been guilty of fraud or
    14  fraudulent practices, or for dishonest or misleading advertising, or has
    15  demonstrated untrustworthiness or incompetency to act as a  real  estate
    16  broker  or salesman, or for a violation of article fifteen of the execu-
    17  tive law committed in his or her capacity as a  real  estate  broker  or
    18  salesman,  as  the  case  may  be.   In the case of a real estate broker
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03803-03-1

        S. 945--B                           2
 
     1  engaged in the business of  a  tenant  relocator,  untrustworthiness  or
     2  incompetency  shall include engaging in any course of conduct including,
     3  but not limited to, the  interruption  or  discontinuance  of  essential
     4  building  service,  that interferes with or disturbs the peace, comfort,
     5  repose and quiet enjoyment of a tenant.
     6    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 80-a  to
     7  read as follows:
     8    § 80-a. Anti-discrimination in housing fund. 1. There is hereby estab-
     9  lished  in  the  custody  of  the state comptroller a special fund to be
    10  known as the "anti-discrimination in housing fund".
    11    2. The anti-discrimination in housing fund  shall  consist  of  moneys
    12  appropriated thereto, moneys transferred from any other fund or sources,
    13  and  fifty  percent  of  all fines and forfeitures collected pursuant to
    14  paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section four hundred forty-one-c  of
    15  the  real  property law. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent
    16  the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the  purposes  of
    17  the  fund  as  defined in this section and depositing them into the fund
    18  according to law.
    19    3. The moneys in the anti-discrimination in housing fund shall be kept
    20  separate from and shall not be commingled with any other moneys  in  the
    21  custody of the state comptroller. Such moneys shall be made available to
    22  the  office  of the attorney general, for fair housing testing and allo-
    23  cation of grants to duly applying county, city, town  or  village  human
    24  rights  commissions,  or other duly applying county, city, town, village
    25  or not-for-profit agencies specializing in the  prevention  of  unlawful
    26  discrimination in housing.
    27    4.  The  attorney general shall establish the application criteria for
    28  such not-for-profit agencies for the purposes of the fund as defined  in
    29  this section.
    30    5.  The monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant
    31  of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified  by  the  attorney
    32  general.
    33    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    34  have become a law.
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