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Assembly Bill A7712

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows prospective tenants of rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodations to request the complete rent history of such housing accommodations

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2023-A7712 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1870
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9246
2025-2026: S3569

2023-A7712 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows prospective tenants of rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodations to request the complete rent history of such housing accommodations.

2023-A7712 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7712
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to allowing prospec-
   tive tenants of rent controlled or rent  stabilized  housing  accommo-
   dations  to request the complete rent history of such housing accommo-
   dations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 14 of the public housing law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  THE  AGENCY SHALL PROMULGATE REGULATIONS, RULES AND POLICIES WHICH
 PROVIDE FOR THE ABILITY OF A PROSPECTIVE TENANT, DEFINED AS AN APPLICANT
 WHO HAS MADE A GOOD FAITH DEPOSIT WITH THE INTENTION  TO  ENTER  INTO  A
 LEASE  FOR  A  RENT  CONTROLLED OR RENT STABILIZED HOUSING ACCOMMODATION
 PROTECTED BY THE EMERGENCY TENANT PROTECTION ACT  OF  NINETEEN  SEVENTY-
 FOUR,  THE EMERGENCY HOUSING RENT CONTROL LAW, THE LOCAL EMERGENCY HOUS-
 ING RENT CONTROL ACT, THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY  OF  NEW  YORK
 AND  ANY  REGULATIONS,  RULES  AND POLICIES ENACTED PURSUANT THERETO, TO
 REQUEST AND RECEIVE A COPY OF THE COMPLETE RENT  HISTORY  OF  SUCH  RENT
 CONTROLLED OR RENT STABILIZED HOUSING ACCOMMODATION. SUCH RENT HISTORIES
 SHALL  AT  A  MINIMUM  INCLUDE RECORDS BACK TO THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED
 SEVENTY-FOUR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06097-03-3

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