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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1437
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2025
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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:
1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
2 19-b to read as follows:
3 § 19-b. Major capital improvement database. The commissioner shall
4 publish on the division website a database of building-wide major capi-
5 tal improvements pursuant to the emergency tenant protection act of
6 nineteen seventy-four, the rent stabilization law of nineteen sixty-
7 nine, the emergency housing rent control law, and the local emergency
8 housing rent control act installed by any landlord in every city with a
9 population of more than one million inhabitants. Such database shall
10 include, but not be limited to, an entry that describes the item or
11 repair, including:
12 1. the cost;
13 2. make and model;
14 3. where the item was purchased;
15 4. the name of company or individual conducting the installation; and
16 5. the installation cost.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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