Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings that are potentially eligible for rental, lease, let or hiring out, and are located within communities of concern.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10510
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding the
state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residen-
tial dwellings meeting certain conditions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1377 of the public health law, as
2 added by section 2 of part T of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. The department shall, in consultation with the division of housing
5 and community renewal, develop a registry for all residential dwellings
6 [with two or more units] built prior to nineteen hundred eighty which,
7 by virtue of their property class designation, are potentially eligible
8 for rental, lease, let or hiring out, and are located within communities
9 of concern as identified by the department. Such registry shall only
10 include qualifying residential dwellings outside a city with a popu-
11 lation of one million people or more. The department shall utilize all
12 available property information to develop the registry including but not
13 limited to information from tax assessment rolls and information from
14 property records in the office in which instruments affecting real prop-
15 erty in the county are recorded.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
17 the amendments to subdivision 1 of section 1377 of the public health law
18 made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
19 section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15862-01-6
