Phil Wong

The proposed bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to publicly issue monthly reports on animal shelters that are in contract with the city of New York. The report would include statistics on how many animals were received, euthanized, adopted, sterilized, lost or died. It would also include statistics on how many animals were categorized as healthy, treatable- rehabilitatable, treatable-manageable, and unhealthy-untreatable.

This bill would remove the exception in §309.3 of the New York City Fire Code that allows the storage and charging of mobility devices in a dwelling unit in a Group R-2 occupancy building.

This bill requires that the NYPD establish an illegal street takeover unit responsible for responding to illegal street takeovers and an illegal street takeover surveillance unit to monitor social media about when and where illegal street takeovers may occur. The department is required to report each time the illegal street takeover unit is deployed.

This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to report how many times city agencies and hospitals submit referrals for individuals to assisted outpatient treatment programs under the state law known as Kendra’s Law, including the number of petitions filed for such referrals and the number of resulting court orders.

This bill would require the Department of Education to create a web portal for the purpose of facilitating the comparison of citywide funding and spending data on a per-school, per-student basis.

This bill would prohibit the parking of commercial vehicles owned or operated by gas or oil heat suppliers, gas or oil heat systems maintenance companies or any public utility in residential streets overnight between the hours of 9:00PM and 5:00AM.

This bill would shorten the amount of notice the Police Department (NYPD) is required to give to initiate multi-agency inspections of nightlife establishments from 30 days to 7. It would also specify that notice is not required where a nightlife establishment does not have a valid Place of Assembly certificate or permit, or is in violation of their Place of Assembly certificate or permit. Finally, it would make technical corrections to Section 20-d of the Charter.

This bill would prohibit the sale, offering for sale, or distribution to another person of confetti containing any amount of plastic material, including plastic confetti with a metallic coating. This prohibition would go into effect on December 31, 2026 and would be enforced by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP). First-time violators would not owe a civil penalty, but a second violation would incur a civil penalty of $150, a third violation would incur a civil penalty of $250, and a fourth and any subsequent violation would incur a civil penalty of $350. DCWP would be required to conduct outreach and education to retailers, wholesalers, and other vendors to raise awareness about the restrictions related to the sale and distribution of plastic confetti. In addition, the Police Department would be required to inform recipients of a permit for a parade, procession, or race of the prohibition on the sale and distribution of plastic confetti.

This bill would prohibit the New York City Police Department (NYPD) from participating directly in the administration of Precinct Community Councils (PCCs). It would allow NYPD personnel to participate in PCC affairs only as advisory resources and prohibit them from administering PCC elections and acting as custodians of PCC administrative records. It would also condition NYPD’s “official recognition” of PCCs—authorization to use the NYPD name, logos, or physical infrastructure and mandating NYPD personnel attendance at any PCC meeting—on a PCC’s bylaws including certain requirements, such as holding meetings in neutral non-NYPD facilities and limiting PCC meeting attendance by commanding officers. Additionally, it would require NYPD to publish online internal guidelines for PCCs and to report to the Mayor, Speaker of the Council, and the public on PCCs given official recognition.

This bill would provide that a failure to obtain a valid Place of Assembly Certificate of Operation from the Department of Buildings, in a case where beverages are offered for sale to be consumed on the premises, would be classified as an immediately hazardous violation. A violation for failing to comply with requirements regarding security guards for a Place of Assembly would also be specified as an immediately hazardous violation. Such requirements regarding security guards would also be expanded to apply to a lessee of a Place of Assembly.