Bill Text: NY S09246 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 9246 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows prospective tenants of rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodations to request the complete rent history of such housing accommodations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S09246 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S09246-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9246

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 12, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 allowing prospec-
          tive  tenants  of  rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommo-
          dations to request the complete rent history of such housing  accommo-
          dations

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 14 of the public housing law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8. The agency shall promulgate regulations, rules and  policies  which
     4  provide  for  the  ability of a prospective tenant of rent controlled or
     5  rent stabilized housing accommodation protected by the emergency  tenant
     6  protection  act  of  nineteen  seventy-four,  the emergency housing rent
     7  control law, the local emergency housing rent control act, the  adminis-
     8  trative  code  of  the  city  of New York and any regulations, rules and
     9  policies enacted pursuant thereto, to request and receive a copy of  the
    10  complete rent history of such rent controlled or rent stabilized housing
    11  accommodation.  Such  rent  histories shall at a minimum include records
    12  back to the year nineteen hundred seventy-four.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15848-01-2