Bill Title: Provides that with respect to apartments covered by rent control, rent stabilization, or the emergency tenant protection act, a landlord must be free of outstanding building code violations to bring an action or proceeding for rent or eviction; provides alternative provisions for disputed violations; requires tenants to pay rent into an interest bearing account to be maintained by the court during the pendency of the dispute over the violation; payments may be made from such account to cover utility bills and the making of necessary repairs if the dispute is resolved in favor of the tenant; provides that if such dispute is resolved in favor of the landlord, then he or she shall receive all such payments with interest thereon.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-29 - print number 2036a [A02036 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Contact	Phone	District	Sponsorship	State Profile	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal [D]	Primary	Email	518-455-5802	HD-067	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	HD-075	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Cosponsor	Email	518-455-5965	HD-081	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]	Primary	Email	518-455-5828	HD-047	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Deborah Glick [D]	Primary	Email	518-455-4841	HD-066	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Nick Perry [D]	Primary	Inactive	Inactive	HD-058	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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