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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           751
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        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
        S. 751                              2
 
     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.