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Assembly Bill A1563A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations

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2025-A1563 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3742
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §467-b, RPT L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3283, S6906

2025-A1563 - Summary

Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.

2025-A1563 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1563
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROSENTHAL, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to information to
   be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accom-
   modations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section
 467-b of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the  laws
 of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (2)  a  landlord of any housing accommodation subject to provisions of
 the local emergency housing  rent  control  act,  the  emergency  tenant
 protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursu-
 ant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabili-
 zation  law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall[, at least once annual-
 ly, including] INCLUDE with [a] ALL new  [lease  and  all]  AND  renewal
 leases,  ON  ANY  RENT  BILLS,  INCLUDING  ANY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION,
 delivered to the occupant of such accommodation[,] provide the  informa-
 tional  material  describing  eligibility  for  and  the benefits of the
 senior citizen rent increase exemption program and the  disability  rent
 increase  exemption program, as provided by the entity administering the
 program pursuant to subparagraph one of this paragraph.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04268-01-5

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2025-A1563A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3742
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §467-b, RPT L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3283, S6906

2025-A1563A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.

2025-A1563A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1563--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROSENTHAL, TAYLOR, LEE, REYES -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Housing -- reported and referred  to  the
   Committee  on  Ways  and  Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to information to
   be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accom-
   modations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section
 467-b of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the  laws
 of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (2)  a  landlord of any housing accommodation subject to provisions of
 the local emergency housing  rent  control  act,  the  emergency  tenant
 protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursu-
 ant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabili-
 zation law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall, at least once annually,
 [including] INCLUDE with [a] ALL new [lease and all] AND renewal leases,
 AND  ON ANY RENT BILLS, INCLUDING ANY RENT BILLS VIA ELECTRONIC COMMUNI-
 CATION, delivered to the occupant of such accommodation[,]  provide  the
 informational  material  describing  eligibility for and the benefits of
 the senior citizen rent increase exemption program  and  the  disability
 rent increase exemption program, as provided by the entity administering
 the program pursuant to subparagraph one of this paragraph.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04268-03-5

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