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Assembly Bill A5396

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Limits the time landlords have to process applications

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2025-A5396 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Add §232-d, RP L

2025-A5396 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the time landlords have to process applications to seven days after which the application is deemed rejected.

2025-A5396 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5396
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to limiting the  time
   landlords have to process applications
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the  "Right  to
 Timely Rental Applications Act".
   § 2. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 232-d to
 read as follows:
   § 232-D. TIMELY RENTAL APPLICATIONS. 1. A LANDLORD, LESSOR, SUB-LESSOR
 OR GRANTOR WHO DOES NOT PROVIDE NOTICE TO AN APPLICANT WITHIN SEVEN DAYS
 AFTER THE: (A) DATE THE APPLICANT SUBMITS A COMPLETED RENTAL APPLICATION
 TO THE LANDLORD ON AN APPLICATION FORM FURNISHED BY THE LANDLORD; OR (B)
 DATE  THE  LANDLORD  ACCEPTS AN APPLICATION DEPOSIT IF THE LANDLORD DOES
 NOT FURNISH THE APPLICANT AN APPLICATION FORM, SHALL BE DEEMED  TO  HAVE
 REJECTED THE APPLICANT. A LANDLORD'S REJECTION OF ONE CO-APPLICANT SHALL
 BE DEEMED AS A REJECTION OF ALL CO-APPLICANTS.
   2. ANY PAYMENT, FEE OR CHARGE DEMANDED BY A LANDLORD, LESSOR, SUB-LES-
 SOR  OR  GRANTOR FOR THE PROCESSING, REVIEW OR ACCEPTANCE OF AN APPLICA-
 TION, WHICH IS RETURNABLE TO THE  APPLICANT  UPON  REJECTION,  SHALL  BE
 RETURNED  TO  THE  REJECTED  APPLICANT  WITHIN  FOURTEEN  DAYS  OF  SUCH
 REJECTION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05439-01-5

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