The New York City Council - File #: Int 1104-2018

• File #: Int 1104-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Expanding the right to counsel for tenants.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Filed (End of Session)
• File created: 9/12/2018
• In control: Committee on General Welfare
• On agenda: 9/12/2018
• Final action: 12/31/2021
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the right to counsel for tenants
• Sponsors: Mark Levine, Mark Levine, Vanessa L. Gibson, Vanessa L. Gibson, Diana I. Ayala, Diana I. Ayala, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Costa G. Constantinides, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Keith Powers , Margaret S. Chin, Helen K. Rosenthal, Carlina Rivera , Brad S. Lander, Carlos Menchaca, Stephen T. Levin, Ben Kallos, Adrienne E. Adams, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Alan N. Maisel, Antonio Reynoso, Justin L. Brannan, Karen Koslowitz, Deborah L. Rose, Farah N. Louis, Bill Perkins, Francisco P. Moya, Barry S. Grodenchik, James G. Van Bramer, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Laurie A. Cumbo, Mathieu Eugene, Mark Treyger, Fernando Cabrera , Tiffany L. Cabán, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/31/2021	*	City Council	Filed (End of Session)
12/31/2021	*	City Council	Filed (End of Session)
12/3/2020	*	City Council	Re-referred to Committee by Council
12/3/2020	*	City Council	Re-referred to Committee by Council
2/24/2020	*	Committee on Housing and Buildings	Laid Over by Committee
2/24/2020	*	Committee on Housing and Buildings	Laid Over by Committee
2/24/2020	*	Committee on Housing and Buildings	Hearing Held by Committee
2/24/2020	*	Committee on Housing and Buildings	Hearing Held by Committee
2/24/2020	*	Committee on Justice System	Laid Over by Committee
2/24/2020	*	Committee on Justice System	Laid Over by Committee
2/24/2020	*	Committee on Justice System	Hearing Held by Committee
2/24/2020	*	Committee on Justice System	Hearing Held by Committee
1/29/2020	*	City Council	Re-referred to Committee by Council
1/29/2020	*	City Council	Re-referred to Committee by Council
9/12/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
9/12/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
9/12/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council
9/12/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1104

By Council Members Levine, Gibson, Ayala, Ampry-Samuel, Powers, Chin, Rosenthal, Rivera, Lander, Menchaca, Levin, Kallos, Adams, Cornegy, Maisel, Reynoso, Brannan, Koslowitz, Rose, Louis, Perkins, Moya, Grodenchik, Van Bramer, Salamanca, Rodriguez, Cumbo, Eugene, Treyger, Cabrera, Cab?n and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams)

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the right to counsel for tenants
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 26-1301 of the administrative law of the city of New York, as added by local law number 136 for the year 2017, is amended to read as follows:
? 26-1301 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
Brief legal assistance. The term "brief legal assistance" means individualized legal assistance provided in a single consultation by a designated organization to a covered individual in connection with a covered proceeding.
Coordinator. The term "coordinator" means the coordinator of the office of civil justice.
Covered individual. The term "covered individual" means a tenant of a rental dwelling
unit located in the city or, where the tenant of record does not currently reside in said rental dwelling unit, the current occupant of a rental dwelling unit located in the city, [including any tenant in a building operated by the New York city housing authority,] who is a respondent or defendant, or who has legal standing to be a respondent or defendant, in a covered proceeding.
Covered proceeding. The term "covered proceeding" means any [summary] proceeding in [housing] a court or before an administrative agency to evict, eject, terminate the tenancy, seek a certificate of eviction, or terminate an income-based rental subsidy of a covered individual, or any appeal of such a proceeding. [including a summary proceeding to seek possession for the non-payment o...