The New York City Council - File #: Int 0086-2018

• File #: Int 0086-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Licensing tenant screening bureaus.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 1/31/2018
• In control: Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing
• On agenda: 1/31/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to licensing tenant screening bureaus
• Sponsors: Ben Kallos, The Public Advocate (Ms. James), Mark Levine, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Helen K. Rosenthal, Antonio Reynoso, Keith Powers , James G. Van Bramer, Diana Ayala , Carlos Menchaca, Bill Perkins, Carlina Rivera , Donovan J. Richards, Justin L. Brannan, Stephen T. Levin, Brad S. Lander, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Jumaane D. Williams, Margaret S. Chin, Adrienne E. Adams, (by request of the Manhattan Borough President)
• Indexes: Oversight

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 86

By Council Member Kallos, The Public Advocate (Ms. James) and Council Members Levine, Salamanca, Rosenthal, Reynoso, Powers, Van Bramer, Ayala, Menchaca, Perkins, Rivera, Richards, Brannan, Levin, Lander, Ampry-Samuel, Williams, Chin and Adams (by request of the Manhattan Borough President)

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to licensing tenant screening bureaus
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subchapter 36 to read as follows:
Subchapter 36
Tenant Screening Bureaus
? 20-570.1 Definitions.
? 20-570.2 License required.
? 20-570.3 License term; fees.
? 20-570.4 Applications.
? 20-570.5 Required and prohibited practices.
? 20-570.6 Powers and duties of the commissioner.
? 20-570.7 Civil penalties.
? 20-570.8 Private right of action.
? 20-570.1 Definitions. For purposes of this subchapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
File. The term "file" when used in connection with information about any tenant or prospective tenant means all of the information about the tenant or prospective tenant that is recorded and retained by a tenant screening bureau, regardless of how the information is stored.
Housing court proceeding. The term "housing court proceeding" means a judicial or administrative proceeding that is related to residential tenancy, rent or eviction, regardless of the forum in which such proceeding is initiated and regardless of whether such proceeding is initiated by a landlord or a tenant.
Tenant screening. The term "tenant screening" means seeking, obtaining or using a tenant screening report about a prospective tenant for the purpose of assessing whether to make a rental offer to or to accept such an offer from a prospective tenant for residential real property l...