STATE OF NEW YORK
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10675
IN ASSEMBLY
August 12, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the real property law and the administrative code of the
city of New York, in relation to prohibiting landlords from reporting
a late rent payment to a consumer reporting agency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 235-e of the real property law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) No lessor or agent of a lessor shall report to any consumer
4 reporting agency, as defined in section three hundred eighty-a of the
5 general business law, any late payment of rent.
6 § 2. Section 26-412 of the administrative code of the city of New York
7 is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:
8 g. It shall be unlawful for a landlord or a successor in interest to
9 report to any consumer reporting agency, as defined in section 20-807 of
10 this chapter, any late payment of rent.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that
12 the amendments to section 26-412 of the city rent and rehabilitation law
13 made by section two of this act shall remain in full force and effect
14 only as long as the emergency requiring the regulation and control of
15 rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1
16 of the local emergency housing rent control act.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15924-02-2
