NYC Legislative Brief #1

From April 11 to today // 8 new local laws // 6 bills headed to the mayor // 25 bills introduced into the city council

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Contents

• Eight (8) new local laws were enacted this week.

• Six (6) bills were passed in the City Council this week. Now they go to the mayor for action (one is about banning the sale of guinea pigs 🐹).

• Twenty-five (25) bills were introduced into the City Council this past week. Now they begin to work their way through the internal legislative consideration process.

New local laws this past week (8)

These bills have been enacted into law by: (1) City Council passage and mayoral signature, or (2) City Council passage and mayoral inaction for 30 days, in which case the city charter auto-adopts it (“Charter Rule Adopted”). In this case, all were passed via charter rule.

1. Local Law 45 (intro/0124-2022), Charter Rule Adopted 📋🏘
   by Rafael Salamanca, Jr. with 10 sponsors, Committee on General Welfare
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on and training of housing specialists within the human resources administration and department of homeless services.
   Summary: This bill would require the Human Resources Administration (HRA) to designate housing specialists within all temporary shelters and to submit an annual report on housing specialists. This bill would also update requirements for housing specialists in Department of Homeless Services (DHS) transitional housing facilities and would require DHS to submit an annual report on housing specialists.

2. Local Law 46 (intro/0210-2022), Charter Rule Adopted ⚓️
   by Joann Ariola, with 28 sponsors, Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
   Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to creating a marine debris disposal and vessel surrendering office.
   Summary: This bill would establish an Office of Marine Debris Disposal and Vessel Surrendering, headed by a Director of Marine Debris Disposal. The Director would be responsible for collaborating with relevant federal, state and City agencies and offices of the Mayor to remove marine debris from the City’s waters and shores, developing a plan to recycle, reuse or dispose of marine debris, developing recommendations for enforcement against people who abandon marine debris, recommending programs to track and monitor vessels to prevent abandonment, developing recommendations for a program for surrendering boats to the City for disposal, and coordinating with organizations and volunteer groups who help remove marine debris from the City’s beaches and shores.

3. Local Law 47 (intro/0236-2022), Charter Rule Adopted ⛴💲
   by Amanda Farías, with 37 sponsors, Committee on Economic Development
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing contracted ferry service at reduced cost to certain persons.
   Summary: This bill would require the inclusion of city high school students in the NYC Ferry Discount Program and would memorialize the entire NYC Ferry Discount Program in the administrative code. It would also ensure any future contracted ferry service offered by the administration would maintain the ferry discount program if the administration should ever take over NYC Ferry from the Economic Development Corporation.

4. Local Law 48 (intro/0403-2022), Charter Rule Adopted 👩‍🏫🪪
   by Rita C. Joseph, with 32 sponsors, Committee on Education
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to distribute IDNYC applications to all high school students
   Summary: This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to distribute information about the IDNYC municipal identification program to every student grades 9 through 12 at the start of each school year. At a minimum, this legislation would require DOE to provide every student with an IDNYC application form, as well as information about IDNYC eligibility requirements, the application process, including but not limited to a list of documents accepted to prove IDNYC identity and residency requirements, and the relevant benefits and discounts provided to IDNYC cardholders.

5. Local Law 49 (intro/0431-2022), Charter Rule Adopted 🙂🏘
   by Rafael Salamanca, Jr., with 10 sponsors, Committee on General Welfare
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to customer service training for shelter personnel of the department of homeless services and its contractors.
   Summary: This bill would require the Department of Homeless Services to, unless provided otherwise by contract, provide biannual customer service training to all shelter personnel, including employees of a provider under contract or similar agreement with the department, who have direct contact with shelter residents. Such training would include techniques to improve professionalism, increase cultural sensitivity, implement a trauma-informed approach to interactions with shelter residents, and de-escalate conflict.

6. Local Law 50 (intro/0642-2022), Charter Rule Adopted 📕👧⏰
   by Nantasha M. Williams, with 26 sponsors, Committee on General Welfare
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring quarterly reporting on the amount of time children and youth spend in the children’s center and other temporary placement facilities of the administration for children’s services.
   Summary: This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to report to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council, and post on the ACS website, a quarterly report about the amount of time that children spend in the children’s center, youth reception centers, rapid intervention centers or other temporary placement facilities. The report would include information about the length of time spent in a facility, the type of facility, the age range of the child, and the number of children placed in a facility for the first time.

7. Local Law 51 (intro/0876-2022), Charter Rule Adopted♻️🏢
   by Pierina Ana Sanchez, with 3 sponsors, Committee on Housing and Buildings
   Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to green building standards and repealing section 224.1 of the New York city charter in relation thereto.
   Summary: This bill would make updates to Local Law 86 of 2005, which requires that certain city-owned and city-funded buildings be built to specific green design and performance standards, as set forth in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. This bill brings the existing law into alignment with updates that have been made since the bill’s passage, including, among other things, updating the baseline inflation year, ensuring the most recent energy standards are being used, and streamlining administrative and reporting requirements.

8. Local Law 52 (intro/0918-2022), Charter Rule Adopted ⚕️🍬
   by Lynn C. Schulman, with 43 sponsors, Committee on Health
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to develop and implement a citywide diabetes incidence and impact reduction plan.
   Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to develop and implement a citywide diabetes incidence and impact reduction plan. DOHMH would be required to report annually on the number of adults with diabetes in NYC and on its strategies and efforts to reduce the incidence and impact of diabetes.

Review: April 11 City Council Stated Meeting

This section reviews the most recent stated meeting of the City Council, where new bills are introduced, and bills are passed out of the Council to the mayor’s desk for potential enactment. Most bills that are passed by the Council become law. You can click on any bill hyperlink for more information.

Bills approved by Council, sent to mayor (6)

1. Intro 0004-2022 🐹
   by Diana I. Ayala with 36 sponsors, Committee on Health
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the sale of guinea pigs in pet shops.
   Summary: This bill would prohibit pet shops from selling guinea pigs.

2. Intro 0008-2022 🎟
   by Justin L. Brannan with 17 sponsors, Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the disclosure of total ticket costs in advertisements.
   Summary: This bill would require the operator of a place of entertainment; an agent, licensee or other ticket reseller of such operator; or a platform that facilitates the sale or resale of tickets to disclose the full price of a ticket whenever they display a ticket price on advertisements. The advertised price would be required to include fees such as taxes and service fees to increase transparency. By requiring early disclosure, this bill would allow consumers to make more informed decisions before beginning a transaction. Those who violate this bill would be subject to civil penalties from zero dollars for the first violation up to $500.

3. Intro 0128-2022 👶🚻🌳
   by Rafael Salamanca, Jr. with 17 sponsors, Committee on Parks and Recreation
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to diaper changing accommodations in parks and redesignating section 18-148.
   Summary: This bill would require that every bathroom under the jurisdiction of the Parks Department have a safe, sanitary and convenient diaper changing station, deck, table or similar amenity, with half of all bathrooms being equipped by December 31, 2025, three-quarters of bathrooms by December 31, 2026 and all remaining bathrooms by December 31, 2027. If the Parks commissioner determines that a restroom does not have sufficient space for the installation of a diaper changing station, or that the installation would negatively impact public safety, the commissioner must notify the speaker of the council and the local council member within 10 days of that determination being made.

4. Intro 0239-2022 ☀️
   by James F. Gennaro with 27 sponsors, Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to education and outreach regarding solar and green roof systems.
   Summary: This bill would require the Department of Buildings to conduct targeted outreach to educate building owners about the benefits of installing solar and green roof systems. Educational materials shall be made available in plain English and all of the designated citywide languages and on the department’s website.

5. Intro 0606-2022 🚗🌳
   by Alexa Avilés with 40 sponsors, Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to motor vehicles idling adjacent to and within certain parks.
   Summary: This bill would amend the idling law to restrict idling to one minute when adjacent to or within parks that have a designated name and are identified as a park on the Department of Parks and Recreation’s website. This bill would also create an affirmative defense that the park was not easily identifiable as a park by signage or otherwise at the time a violation occurred.

6. Intro 0675-2022 🖥💊
   by Crystal Hudson with 35 sponsors, Committee on Health
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a telemedicine accessibility plan.
   Summary: This bill would require the creation of a telemedicine accessibility plan to improve the availability and accessibility of portable monitoring devices and telehealth devices for populations that could be better served by telemedicine services.

Bills introduced into Council (25)

Most bills introduced into the Council aren’t passed for a variety of reasons.

1. Intro 0980-2023 📄💲🚫
   by Diana I. Ayala with 4 sponsors, Committee on Civil and Human Rights
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring quarterly reporting on lawful source of income discrimination in housing accommodations.
   Summary: This bill would require the New York City Commission on Human Rights to issue quarterly reports regarding source of income discrimination complaints it has received, initiated, and resolved the previous quarter as well as unresolved complaints received or initiated prior to the previous quarter and the status of such complaints.

2. Intro 0981-2023 🚮🏪🚨
   by Erik D. Bottcher with 5 sponsors, Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the commercial citywide routing system for sidewalk cleanliness violations and technical amendments thereto, including to repeal and reenact subdivision c of section 16-118.1.
   Summary: This bill would amend the Department of Sanitation’s enforcement routing program to allow for businesses to receive fines for sidewalk cleanliness violations during their hours of operation, provided that the business’s hours are posted in plain view and the business is generally open to the public. Other commercial premises will be liable to receive fines for littering between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M.

3. Intro 0982-2023 💰⏰
   by Justin L. Brannan with 3 sponsors, Committee on Contracts
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to interest to be paid on late contract payments to non-profit contractors.
   Summary: This bill would require interest to be paid on late payments under city contracts with non-profit organizations. The non-profit contractor would not be eligible to receive the interest if the non-profit contractor has received a no-interest and no-service-fee loan issued or authorized by a city agency to cover its expenses in relation to the subject contract.

4. Intro 0983-2023 ☀️🅿️🔋
   by Justin L. Brannan with 5 sponsors, Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to mandating the construction of solar canopies in certain parking lots.
   Summary: This local law would mandate, with respect to all city-owned, or leased or operated parking lots receiving solar radiation, that the Department of Citywide Administrative Services install all solar canopies that would be cost-effective at each city-controlled parking lot. In addition for each city controlled parking lot a number of parking spaces equal to or greater than 50 percent of the parking spaces covered by such canopies shall be equipped with electrical raceways capable of supporting electric vehicle charging stations and shall be installed in each city controlled parking lot where a solar canopy is installed. This local law would require reporting every five years on, among other things, the value of energy produced by solar canopies on city-controlled parking lots and a summary of how such energy was used and a description of each factor that has affected the cost-effectiveness of installing solar canopies on city-controlled parking lots.

5. Intro 0984-2023 ✂️
   by Gale A. Brewer with 3 sponsors, Committee on Governmental Operations
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to amending and repealing certain outdated and unnecessary temporary or pilot programs, unconstitutional provisions and other outdated and unnecessary provisions.
   Summary: The proposed legislation would repeal from the Administrative Code: Temporary or Pilot Programs: Such provisions would be repealed as each of the programs have expired. Some provisions require only the creation of a program for a specific period of time, while others also require submission of an accompanying report by a specific date. Regardless, all the program completion dates and report due dates required under such provisions have long since passed; Unconstitutional Provisions: provisions of the Administrative Code that have been deemed unconstitutional; and Outdated Provisions: sections of the Administrative Code that are obsolete due to changed circumstances.

6. Intro 0985-2023 👵🏠
   by Eric Dinowitz with 5 sponsors, Committee on Aging
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to provision of senior citizen rent increase exemption application forms pre-populated with applicable data to eligible persons living in city-supervised Mitchell-Lama housing.
   Summary: This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to, in coordination with the Department of Finance, provide an application form for the senior citizen rent increase exemption program to eligible residents in Mitchell-Lama apartment buildings subject to city supervision with the necessary application information pre-filled on the form. The form is to be provided after eligible residents submit their income verification affidavit and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development confirms the information in the affidavit matches necessary state tax records.

7. Intro 0986-2023 ✂️
   by Amanda Farías with 2 sponsors, Committee on Governmental Operations
   Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to amending and repealing certain outdated and unnecessary advisory boards, task forces and commissions.
   Summary: The proposed legislation would repeal provisions of the Charter and Administrative Code establishing certain advisory boards, task forces or commissions. Such provisions would be repealed for at least one of the following reasons: the body no longer convenes and has been dormant for a substantial period of time; the provision establishing the body calls for the submission of a one-time report and no further activity; the body no longer provides any useful function; the duties assigned to the body are duplicative of the functions of other City bodies; or the provision was waived by the Report and Advisory Board Review Commission.

8. Intro 0987-2023 🚫🚗🏷
   by Oswald Feliz with 15 sponsors, Committee on Public Safety
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle with fraudulent or expired license plates.
   Summary: This bill would make it unlawful to operate a motor vehicle with a fraudulent license plate, including a fraudulent temporary license plate, or an expired license plate, including an expired temporary license plate, and would set civil penalties for such violations. It would also set a 10 business day cure period for the violation of operating a motor vehicle with an expired license plate, including an expired temporary license plate.

9. Intro 0988-2023 🚫🥸🏷
   by Oswald Feliz with 14 sponsors, Committee on Public Safety
   Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the sale or distribution of fraudulent license plates.
   Summary: This bill would make it unlawful to sell or distribute a fraudulent license plate, including a fraudulent temporary license plate, and would set a civil penalty for such violation.

10. Intro 0989-2023 📝🌎🌍
    by Shahana K. Hanif with 7 sponsors, Committee on Governmental Operations
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of citywide administrative services to provide civil service exams in languages other than English.
    Summary: This bill would require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services to identify civil service positions that do not require fluency in English and offer those exams in the designated citywide languages. It would also require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services to consult with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and community-based organizations to determine other languages in which to offer those exams based on the needs of eligible exam takers. Finally, the bill would also allow exam takers to request that such exams be administered in the language of their choice and provide an explanation if the exam is not offered in that language.

11. Intro 0990-2023 1️⃣😴
    by Robert F. Holden with 6 sponsors, Committee on General Welfare
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to shelter sleeping areas.
    Summary: This bill would require the Department of Homeless Services to ensure that single adult shelter residents are provided with at least individual sleeping areas that are partitioned off from other residents that allow for individual privacy.

12. Intro 0991-2023 🚨1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣
    by Robert F. Holden with 10 sponsors, Committee on Veterans
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to cure periods for certain violations by veterans service organizations.
    Summary: This bill would create cure periods for certain violations issued by the Fire Department of the City of New York, the Department of Sanitation, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Department of Buildings for veterans service organizations. Cure periods would be 120 days in length, with a possibility of extension. A veterans service organization that cures a violation within the cure period would avoid being required to pay a fine or civil penalty. No cure period would be authorized, however, for a violation that is an immediate threat to health or safety. This bill would also require the Department of Veterans’ Services to conduct a public information and outreach campaign regarding the new cure periods.

13. Intro 0992-2023 👮‍♂️👧
    by Crystal Hudson with 7 sponsors, Committee on Public Safety
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the establishment of a process to divert young people to community-based organizations in lieu of arrest.
    Summary: This bill would require the commissioner to provide guidance to its uniformed officers on determining whether to use criminal enforcement or divert young people to community-based organizations to receive essential services in lieu of arrest. The bill would also require reporting on the number of patrol precincts, housing police service areas, or transit districts that utilize youth diversion as well as demographic information, the potential arrest charge, and the name of the community-based organization in which a referral was made.

14. Intro 0993-2023 📚🎮
    by Crystal Hudson with 11 sponsors, Committee on Youth Services
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a universal after school program plan.
    Summary: This bill would require the Department of Youth and Community Development, in consultation with the Department of Education, to establish, subject to appropriation, a program of universal after school for all public school students in the city by September 1, 2024. This bill would also require a report on a plan to address the need for expanded after school programs for all New York City youth and steps the city will take to establish universal after school. It would also report on other issues related to after school capacity and participation rates.

15. Intro 0994-2023 📕🏭9️⃣7️⃣
    by Linda Lee with 2 sponsors, Committee on Housing and Buildings
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to education and outreach on building emissions requirements.
    Summary: This bill would require the Department of Buildings to provide written notifications containing information on a building’s emissions and an explanation and range of potential penalties under Local Law 97 of 2019. These notifications would need to be provided to the owners of covered buildings every two years.

16. Intro 0995-2023 🥬🥸🚫
    by Julie Menin with 18 sponsors, Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a public awareness campaign on the dangers of purchasing cannabis or cannabis products from unlicensed cannabis retailers.
    Summary: This bill would require the department of health and mental hygiene (DOHMH) to collaborate with the department of consumer and worker protection (DCWP) and any other relevant agency to create and implement a public awareness campaign on the dangers of purchasing cannabis or cannabis products from unlicensed cannabis retailers. The campaign would target minors and young adults and focus on the risks of consuming cannabis products adulterated with synthetic cannabinoids and other harmful substances and the risk of purchasing such products from unlicensed cannabis retailers.

17. Intro 0996-2023 🫀🩸🤖
    by Mercedes Narcisse with 3 sponsors, Committee on Health
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the placement of automated, self-administered blood pressure testing machines at certain public places.
    Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to provide blood pressure machines in high need publicly accessible areas throughout the city. The bill would also require DOHMH to post on their website the public places where such machines are located as well as instructions on the use and operation of the blood pressure machines. Providing free, blood pressure machines for public use would enable citizens, especially un- and under-insured, at-risk individuals, to routinely monitor their blood pressures and possibly encourage them to seek medical treatment, or make life changes to lower their blood pressures in the event self-testing consistently reveals elevated levels.

18. Intro 0997-2023 🚓👮‍♂️🔫
    by Mercedes Narcisse with 4 sponsors, Committee on Public Safety
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the NYPD to report on use of force incidents that include an officer displaying or unholstering a weapon.
    Summary: This bill would expand the definition of “use of force incidents” that must be reported by the New York City Police Department to include when an officer, while taking police action, responds to an incident or conditions and displays or unholsters a weapon.

19. Intro 0998-2023 📔🔋
    by Sandy Nurse with 4 sponsors, Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to record keeping and reporting on the disposal of rechargeable batteries used for powered mobility devices.
    Summary: This bill creates record keeping and reporting requirements for entities that purchase or accept second-use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power devices such as e-bikes and electric scooters. The entities would be required to maintain and submit records to the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), on information pertaining to the number and type of rechargeable batteries purchased or accepted and how such rechargeable batteries were disposed of. Additionally, all records would be made available to the Department of Sanitation and Fire Department upon request; and DCWP would be required to submit an annual report summarizing information gathered pursuant to this law.

20. Intro 0999-2023 🏦
    by Keith Powers with 9 sponsors, Committee on Finance
    Title: A Local Law in relation to the establishment of a task force to study options and make recommendations for a plan to implement a municipal public bank.
    Summary: This bill would create a task force to study the potential for a public bank sponsored by the city, recommend a draft plan of governance and charter requirements proposed under New York Senate Bill S.1754 for the year 2023, and issue a report on their findings. The task force shall consist of three members appointed by the mayor, one of whom shall be the commissioner of finance or their designee, one of whom shall be the commissioner of consumer and worker protection or their designee, and one of whom shall be a representative of a labor organization; three members appointed by the comptroller, one of whom must have community banking experience; and three members appointed by the speaker of the council, one of whom must be a representative of a small business association and one of whom must be a member of a community-based organization responsible for community development, economic development, and/or consumer protection. The chair of the task force shall be named from the speaker’s appointees. The task force final report shall be due no later than one year from its first meeting and disband 180 days after submission of the report.

21. Intro 1000-2023 🚨🚲📦
    by Lynn C. Schulman with 3 sponsors, Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring food delivery companies to be responsible for the safe operation of electric food delivery bicycles.
    Summary: This bill would require third-party food delivery services to be responsible for ensuring that food delivery workers using electric food delivery bicycles to make deliveries on their behalf, operate such bicycles in accordance with sections 19-176 and 19-195.1, which concern the operation of bicycles on sidewalks and at intersections. This bill would require third-party food delivery services to accept financial liability for civil penalties resulting from a food delivery worker’s violation of section 19-176 or 19-195.1, while engaged in the pick-up and delivery of food and/or beverage items. This bill also requires food delivery workers to notify the third-party food delivery service for whom they were working at the time of the violation within 10 days from the issuance of any fine and provides an affirmative defense to any civil penalty for third-party food delivery services who were not properly notified of a violation by a food delivery worker.

22. Intro 1001-2023 🚫🥸🥬
    by Lynn C. Schulman with 8 sponsors, Committee on Public Safety
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting owners of commercial premises from knowingly leasing commercial premises to unlicensed cannabis sellers and requiring the sheriff to produce a monthly report on enforcement relating to unlicensed cannabis sellers.
    Summary: This bill would prohibit knowingly leasing commercial premises to a tenant who uses the premises for distribution or sale of cannabis or cannabis products without a license. The first time that an unlicensed cannabis seller is found to be operating in leased commercial premises, the Sheriff, Police Department, or any other relevant agency would issue a warning to the owner of the premises. If an unlicensed cannabis seller is later found to be operating in the same commercial premises, the owner would be liable for civil penalties. This bill would also require the Sheriff, in collaboration with the police department and any other relevant agency, to submit to the Mayor and the Council a monthly report on enforcement relating to unlicensed cannabis sellers.

23. Intro 1002-2023 💵⏰🏠
    by Marjorie Velázquez as lone sponsor, Committee on Housing and Buildings
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing timelines for cooperative corporations to approve or deny the sale of cooperative apartments.
    Summary: This bill would set timelines for decisions regarding the sale of co-op apartments. It would generally require the co-op to acknowledge receipt of application materials within 10 days, and provide notice of whether it has consented to the sale within 45 days after the application is complete, with extensions possible in some circumstances. A co-op’s failure to communicate whether or not it consents to a sale within the required period, and 10 business days after receiving notice from the prospective purchaser, would mean the co-op is deemed to consent to the sale.

24. Intro 1003-2023 🚫🍽
    by Marjorie Velázquez with 10 sponsors, Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
    Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring reusable eating utensils and eating containers at food service establishments and returnable food packaging at fast casual food establishments.
    Summary: This bill would prohibit food service establishments, with capacity for dishwashing, from providing dine-in customers non-reusable eating utensils or eating containers unless requested. The bill would also require all fast casual food establishments in the city to provide customers with the option to request returnable food packaging and establish a return system for such food packaging. Violations of this legislation will result in civil penalties.

25. Intro 1004-2023 ✂️
    by Nantasha M. Williams with 3 sponsors, Committee on Governmental Operations
    Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removing certain reporting requirements selected for waiver by the report and advisory board review commission and amending and repealing certain outdated and unnecessary reports and studies.
    Summary: The proposed legislation would repeal 24 provisions of the Charter and Administrative Code requiring certain reports and studies. Such provisions would be repealed for at least one of the following reasons: the due date for submission of the report or study has passed and no further reporting has been required; the report is duplicative of other mandated reporting; the report is no longer necessary in light of changing circumstances; or the provision was waived by the Report and Advisory Board Review Commission.