Allows prospective tenants of rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodations to request the complete rent history of such housing accommodations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1870--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to allowing prospec-
tive tenants of rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommo-
dations to request the complete rent history of such housing accommo-
dations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 14 of the public housing law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. The agency shall promulgate regulations, rules and policies which
4 provide for the ability of a prospective tenant, defined as an applicant
5 who has made a good faith deposit with the intention to enter into a
6 lease for a rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodation
7 protected by the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
8 four, the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency hous-
9 ing rent control act, the administrative code of the city of New York
10 and any regulations, rules and policies enacted pursuant thereto, to
11 request and receive a copy of the complete rent history of such rent
12 controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodation. Such rent histories
13 shall at a minimum include records back to the year nineteen hundred
14 seventy-four.
15 § 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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