NY State Senate Bill 2023-S5701

Senate Bill S5701

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the disclosure of bedbug infestation history for the previous year to prospective lessees

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee

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Jan 03, 2024	referred to judiciary
Mar 13, 2023	referred to judiciary

2023-S5701 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Judiciary
Law Section:: Real Property Law
Laws Affected:: Add §235-j, RP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S5472
2015-2016: S528
2017-2018: S2830
2019-2020: S4219
2021-2022: S4747

2023-S5701 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the disclosure of bedbug infestation history for the previous year to prospective lessees; does not apply to cities with a population of one million or more; includes co-op sales and co-op and condo rentals in addition to other types of rentals.

2023-S5701 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5701

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the real property law, in relation to providing prospec-
tive lessees with the property's bedbug infestation history for the
previous year

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To allow tenants the opportunity to examine the facts regarding the
bedbug infestation history of a building, condo or an apartment within
the past year in order to make an educated determination about the
health and safety of the property.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1: The real property law is amended by adding a new section
253-j.

Section 2: This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall

have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of the state
division of housing and community renewal may take any action necessary
for the timely implementation of this act on or before the date on which
it shall have become a law.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

While prospective tenants in New York City are now legally entitled to
know if an individual apartment or building has been infested with
bedbugs within the past year, other municipalities do not enjoy this
protection. This legislation would correct this inequality by expanding
the protections of the 2010 Bedbug Disclosure Act to all New Yorkers.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2021-2022: S4747 - Referred to Judiciary

2019-2020: S.4219 - Referred to Judiciary

2017-2018: S.2830 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT:

2015-2016: S.528 - Referred to Judiciary

2013-2014: S.5472 - Referred to Judiciary

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of the state divi-
sion of housing and community renewal may take any action necessary for
the timely implementation of this act on or before the date on which it
shall have become a law.

2023-S5701 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5701
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to providing prospec-
   tive lessees with the property's bedbug infestation  history  for  the
   previous year

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  The real property law is amended by adding a  new  section
 235-j to read as follows:
   §  235-J.  NOTICE  OF  BEDBUG  INFESTATION HISTORY. 1. ALL PROSPECTIVE
 LESSEES SHALL BE FURNISHED WITH A  NOTICE,  IN  A  FORM  PROMULGATED  OR
 APPROVED  BY  THE  STATE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL, THAT
 SETS FORTH THE PROPERTY'S BEDBUG INFESTATION HISTORY  FOR  THE  PREVIOUS
 YEAR.
   2. INFORMATION SHALL INCLUDE ANY BEDBUG INFESTATION OF THE PREMISES TO
 BE  RENTED BY THE PROSPECTIVE TENANT AND THE BUILDING IN WHICH THE PREM-
 ISES ARE LOCATED.
   3. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY  TO  CITIES  WITH  A
 POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
   4. THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, CO-OP SALES AND
 CO-OP AND CONDO RENTALS.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.  Effective immediately, the commissioner of the state
 division of housing and community renewal may take any action  necessary
 for the timely implementation of this act on or before the date on which
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07399-01-3

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