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Senate Bill S10517

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires a procedure for notification when a family member applies and is denied by a limited-profit housing company to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement

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2025-S10517 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10311
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §31, Priv Hous Fin L

2025-S10517 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a procedure for notification of a family member of a tenant or cooperator in the case that their application to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement is denied by a limited-profit housing company.

2025-S10517 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10517 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10517
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community Development
 
 AN  ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to requir-
   ing a procedure for notification of a family member  of  a  tenant  or
   cooperator  in  the  case that their application to succeed a lease or
   occupancy agreement is denied by a limited-profit housing company
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.   Section 31 of the private housing finance law is amended
 by adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16. THE COMMISSIONER OR SUPERVISING AGENCY SHALL DEVELOP  A  PROCEDURE
 WHEREBY  A  FAMILY  MEMBER  OF A TENANT OR COOPERATOR IS NOTIFIED IN THE
 CASE THAT THEIR APPLICATION TO SUCCEED TO A LEASE OR OCCUPANCY AGREEMENT
 IS DENIED BY A LIMITED-PROFIT HOUSING COMPANY SUBJECT TO THE  PROVISIONS
 OF THIS ARTICLE, AND SUCH PROCEDURE SHALL ALSO INCLUDE THE APPEALS PROC-
 ESS  AVAILABLE  TO  THE DENIED APPLICANT. THE NOTIFICATION THAT SHALL BE
 SENT TO THE APPLICANT SHALL BE IN WRITTEN FORM, INCLUDE REASONS FOR  THE
 DENIAL,  AND  THE  APPEALS  PROCESS. SUCH APPEAL SHALL INCLUDE A HEARING
 HELD BY THE COMMISSIONER OR THE SUPERVISING AGENCY WITH  THE  APPLICANT,
 OR  THEIR  DESIGNEE,  AND ANY INTERESTED WITNESSES TO REVIEW THE HOUSING
 COMPANY'S DETERMINATION AND ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY  THE
 APPLICANT.    ANY  LIMITED-PROFIT  HOUSING  COMPANY MAY ELECT ADDITIONAL
 PROCEDURES SO LONG AS SUCH PROCEDURES  ARE  NOT  INCONSISTENT  WITH  THE
 PROCEDURES  DEVELOPED  BY THE COMMISSIONER OR SUPERVISING AGENCY AND ANY
 OTHER REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. 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.
                                                            LBD14892-03-6

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