Assembly Bill A10675

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits landlords from reporting a late rent payment to a consumer reporting agency

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A10675 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §235-e, RP L; amd §26-412, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A2192

2021-A10675 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits any lessor or agent of a lessor from reporting to any consumer reporting agency.

2021-A10675 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10675
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
   thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property law and the administrative code of the
   city of New York, in relation to prohibiting landlords from  reporting
   a late rent payment to a consumer reporting agency

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 235-e of the real property law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
   (E) NO LESSOR OR AGENT OF  A  LESSOR  SHALL  REPORT  TO  ANY  CONSUMER
 REPORTING  AGENCY,  AS  DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-A OF THE
 GENERAL BUSINESS LAW, ANY LATE PAYMENT OF RENT.
   § 2. Section 26-412 of the administrative code of the city of New York
 is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:
   G. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR A LANDLORD OR A SUCCESSOR IN  INTEREST  TO
 REPORT TO ANY CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 20-807 OF
 THIS CHAPTER, ANY LATE PAYMENT OF RENT.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that
 the amendments to section 26-412 of the city rent and rehabilitation law
 made by section two of this act shall remain in full  force  and  effect
 only  as  long  as the emergency requiring the regulation and control of
 rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1
 of the local emergency housing rent control act.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15924-02-2

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