New York Senate Bill S01870 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1870--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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, defined as an applicant 5 who has made a good faith deposit with the intention to enter into a 6 lease for a rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodation 7 protected by the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy- 8 four, the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency hous- 9 ing rent control act, the administrative code of the city of New York 10 and any regulations, rules and policies enacted pursuant thereto, to 11 request and receive a copy of the complete rent history of such rent 12 controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodation. Such rent histories 13 shall at a minimum include records back to the year nineteen hundred 14 seventy-four. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06097-02-3