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Senate Bill S3742A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations

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2025-S3742 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1563
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §467-b, RPT L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S6906, A3283

2025-S3742 - Summary

Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.

2025-S3742 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3742 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3742
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to information to
   be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accom-
   modations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section
 467-b of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the  laws
 of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (2)  a  landlord of any housing accommodation subject to provisions of
 the local emergency housing  rent  control  act,  the  emergency  tenant
 protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursu-
 ant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabili-
 zation  law  of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall, at least [once] TWICE
 annually, [including] PROVIDE with [a]  ALL  new  [lease  and  all]  AND
 renewal  leases,  AND  ANY WRITTEN LEASE MODIFICATIONS, delivered to the
 occupant of such accommodation,  [provide]  the  informational  material
 describing  eligibility  for and the benefits of the senior citizen rent
 increase exemption program and the disability  rent  increase  exemption
 program, as provided by the entity administering the program pursuant to
 subparagraph  one  of  this  paragraph;  PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT ANY SUCH
 INFORMATION PROVIDED AS PART OF A NEW OR RENEWAL LEASE, OR WRITTEN LEASE
 MODIFICATION, SHALL COUNT TOWARD THE REQUIREMENT FOR TWO ANNUAL NOTICES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04268-02-5

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2025-S3742A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1563
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §467-b, RPT L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S6906, A3283

2025-S3742A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.

2025-S3742A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3742A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3742--A
     Cal. No. 1106
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
   reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
   report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
   retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to information to
   be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accom-
   modations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3  of  section
 467-b  of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the laws
 of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (2) a landlord of any housing accommodation subject to  provisions  of
 the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act, the emergency tenant
 protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursu-
 ant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabili-
 zation law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall, at least once annually,
 [including] INCLUDE with [a] ALL new [lease and all] AND renewal leases,
 AND ON ANY RENT BILLS, INCLUDING ANY RENT BILLS VIA ELECTRONIC  COMMUNI-
 CATION,  delivered  to the occupant of such accommodation[,] provide the
 informational material describing eligibility for and  the  benefits  of
 the  senior  citizen  rent increase exemption program and the disability
 rent increase exemption program, as provided by the entity administering
 the program pursuant to subparagraph one of this paragraph.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04268-04-5

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