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S 8559 NY

Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Oct 29, 2025

Latest action (Feb 18, 2026) PRINT NUMBER 8559A

Summary

Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant which occurs when an owner intentionally engages in a systematic ongoing course of conduct to induce three or more rent regulated tenants occupying different housing accommodations in two or more residential buildings to vacate such housing accommodations or if such owner commits the crime of harassment of a rent regulated tenant and was previously convicted of the same crime in the past five years.

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1 coauthor / cosponsor

Action history (4)
  1. Oct 29, 2025 REFERRED TO RULES · upper
  2. Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO CODES · upper
  3. Feb 18, 2026 AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CODES · upper
  4. Feb 18, 2026 PRINT NUMBER 8559A · upper

Text versions (3)

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  • S8559 · HTML
  • S8559 · PDF
  • S8559A · PDF

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