Assembly Bill A8768

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to major capital improvements and individual apartment improvements in rent regulated units

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8768 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Emergency Housing Rent Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-a, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L

2025-A8768 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits temporary major capital improvement increases for buildings where the owner has demonstrated a pattern of violations unless the applicant shows by clear and convincing evidence that the proposed improvement will directly and substantially remedy those violations.

2025-A8768 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8768
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 2, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LASHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Housing
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the emergency housing rent control law, in relation to
   major capital improvements and individual  apartment  improvements  in
   rent regulated units
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 of section  8-a  of
 chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, constituting the emergency housing rent
 control  law,  as added by section 7 of part K of chapter 36 of the laws
 of 2019, are amended and a  new  subdivision  4  is  added  to  read  as
 follows:
   (d)  prohibit temporary major capital improvement increases for build-
 ings with outstanding hazardous or immediately hazardous  violations  of
 the  Uniform  Fire Prevention and Building Code (Uniform Code), New York
 City Fire Code, or New York City Building and Housing Maintenance Codes,
 if  applicable;  AND  PROHIBIT  TEMPORARY  MAJOR   CAPITAL   IMPROVEMENT
 INCREASES  FOR  BUILDINGS  WHERE  THE OWNER, OR ANY PERSON ACTING ON THE
 OWNER'S BEHALF, HAS, WITHIN THE LOOK-BACK PERIOD DEFINED IN  SUBDIVISION
 FOUR  OF  THIS SECTION, DEMONSTRATED A PATTERN OF VIOLATIONS MEETING THE
 THRESHOLD SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION FOUR  OF  THIS  SECTION,  UNLESS  THE
 APPLICANT  SHOWS  BY  CLEAR  AND  CONVINCING  EVIDENCE THAT THE PROPOSED
 IMPROVEMENT WILL DIRECTLY AND SUBSTANTIALLY REMEDY THOSE VIOLATIONS;
   (e) prohibit individual apartment improvement  increases  for  housing
 accommodations  with  outstanding  hazardous  or  immediately  hazardous
 violations of the Uniform Fire Prevention  and  Building  Code  (Uniform
 Code),  New  York  City Fire Code, or New York City Building and Housing
 Maintenance Codes, if  applicable;  AND  PROHIBIT  INDIVIDUAL  APARTMENT
 IMPROVEMENT INCREASES FOR HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS WHERE THE OWNER, OR ANY
 PERSON  ACTING  ON  THE OWNER'S BEHALF, HAS, WITHIN THE LOOK-BACK PERIOD
 DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION, DEMONSTRATED A  PATTERN  OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11970-01-5

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