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Senate Bill S1437

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of major capital improvements

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2025-S1437 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Add §19-b, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3257
2013-2014: S2217
2015-2016: S3845
2017-2018: S3884
2019-2020: S5691
2021-2022: S3325
2023-2024: S2363

2025-S1437 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of building-wide major capital improvements installed by landlords in every city of more than one million inhabitants.

2025-S1437 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1437 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1437
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. RIVERA, JACKSON -- 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 public housing law, in relation to requiring the
   division of housing and community  renewal  to  establish  a  publicly
   accessible online database of building-wide major capital improvements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
 19-b to read as follows:
   §  19-B.  MAJOR  CAPITAL  IMPROVEMENT DATABASE. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
 PUBLISH ON THE DIVISION WEBSITE A DATABASE OF BUILDING-WIDE MAJOR  CAPI-
 TAL  IMPROVEMENTS  PURSUANT  TO  THE  EMERGENCY TENANT PROTECTION ACT OF
 NINETEEN SEVENTY-FOUR, THE RENT STABILIZATION  LAW  OF  NINETEEN  SIXTY-
 NINE,  THE  EMERGENCY  HOUSING RENT CONTROL LAW, AND THE LOCAL EMERGENCY
 HOUSING RENT CONTROL ACT INSTALLED BY ANY LANDLORD IN EVERY CITY WITH  A
 POPULATION  OF  MORE  THAN  ONE MILLION INHABITANTS. SUCH DATABASE SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, AN ENTRY  THAT  DESCRIBES  THE  ITEM  OR
 REPAIR, INCLUDING:
   1. THE COST;
   2. MAKE AND MODEL;
   3. WHERE THE ITEM WAS PURCHASED;
   4. THE NAME OF COMPANY OR INDIVIDUAL CONDUCTING THE INSTALLATION; AND
   5. THE INSTALLATION COST.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04234-01-5

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