STATE OF NEW YORK
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7915
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 4, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting insurers
from requiring a property owner to disclose the presence of tenants
receiving rental assistance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3462
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3462. Rental assistance disclosure. No insurer shall, on an appli-
4 cation for a policy of insurance on property, require a property owner
5 to disclose whether such property owner rents any portion of the proper-
6 ty to a tenant who receives any rental assistance provided by a city,
7 state, or federal agency, housing authority, or other entity wherein the
8 tenant's portion of the rent is limited to a percentage of the tenant's
9 income.
10 § 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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