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Assembly Bill A7263

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires landlords to include voter registration update forms in lease signature packages

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2025-A7263 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Add §235-k, RP L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10379

2025-A7263 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that every lease signature package provided to a tenant by a landlord or the landlord's agent shall include a New York State Voter Registration Form for each tenant over the age of eighteen years and information directing the tenant or tenants to the board of elections website.

2025-A7263 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7263
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation  to  requiring  land-
   lords  to  include  voter registration update forms in lease signature
   packages
 
   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-k to read as follows:
   § 235-K. VOTER REGISTRATION UPDATE FORMS.  EVERY LEASE SIGNATURE PACK-
 AGE PROVIDED TO A TENANT BY A LANDLORD OR  THE  LANDLORD'S  AGENT  SHALL
 INCLUDE  A  NEW  YORK STATE VOTER REGISTRATION FORM FOR EACH TENANT OVER
 THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN  YEARS  AND  INFORMATION  DIRECTING  THE  TENANT  OR
 TENANTS TO THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS WEBSITE.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing 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.
                                                            LBD10995-01-5

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