Requires landlords to notify adjoining units of a bed bug infestation in a rental residential premises without identifying information, and to notify all tenants of an infestation in a common area by posting such notice in a conspicuous location accessible to all tenants.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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751
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to notice to certain
tenants of a bed bug infestation in residential rental premises
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 235-j of the real property law, as added by a chap-
2 ter of the laws of 2024 amending the real property law relating to
3 requiring landlords and lessors provide notice to tenants about bed bug
4 infestation, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9227 and A.
5 9329, is amended to read as follows:
6 § 235-j. Duty to inform of bed bug infestation. 1. Upon having know-
7 ledge of a bed bug infestation in a unit of a residential rental prem-
8 ises, the landlord or lessor of a residential rental premises shall
9 provide [all tenants and lessees on such premises] written notice of
10 such infestation to the landlord's tenants and lessees who reside in
11 units on the premises immediately above, immediately below, and imme-
12 diately adjacent to the infested unit. Such written notice shall be
13 provided to [the] such tenants and lessees within [twenty-four] seven-
14 ty-two hours of the landlord or lessor having knowledge of the bed bug
15 infestation.
16 2. Upon having knowledge of a bed bug infestation in a common area of
17 a residential rental premises, the landlord or lessor of the residential
18 rental premises shall place notice of such infestation in a conspicuous
19 location accessible to all tenants and lessees residing in the premises
20 within seventy-two hours of the landlord or lessor having knowledge of
21 the bed bug infestation.
22 3. Any notice required to be provided pursuant to subdivision one of
23 this section shall not identify the infested unit or contain any
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02710-01-5
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1 personally identifying information of the tenant or tenants whose unit
2 experienced the bed bug infestation.
3 4. Subdivisions one and two of this section shall not apply to a land-
4 lord or lessor that is subject to notice and remediation obligations
5 related to bed bug infestations pursuant to a judicial order, legal
6 settlement, or binding agreement with a federal, state, or local regula-
7 tory entity while such judicial order, legal settlement, or binding
8 agreement is in effect.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
10 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the real property law
11 relating to requiring landlords and lessors provide notice to tenants
12 about bed bug infestation, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
13 9227 and A. 9329, takes effect.
