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Relates to notice regarding the rent increase exemption for low income elderly persons and persons with disabilities programs

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 8, 2025

Latest action (May 18, 2026) REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

Summary

This bill requires the state commissioner of housing and community renewal and landlords to provide notice to tenants about their potential eligibility for rent increase exemptions available to low-income elderly persons and persons with disabilities. The state commissioner must provide notice when receiving applications for rent adjustments due to major capital improvements, processing rent increases, or receiving annual certifications. Landlords must provide notice with initial leases and renewal leases, and upon annual registration of housing accommodations. The notice must clearly display eligibility requirements and provide website and phone number information for tenants seeking more details about the exemption programs.

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Official abstract

Requires certain agencies and individuals to provide notice regarding the rent increase exemption for low income elderly persons and persons with disabilities programs to tenants upon the occurrence of certain events.

Sponsor (1)

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Action history (26)

  1. Jan 8, 2025 REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT · upper
  2. Feb 3, 2025 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
  3. Apr 29, 2025 1ST REPORT CAL.746 · upper
  4. Apr 30, 2025 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
  5. May 1, 2025 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
  6. May 13, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
  7. May 13, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  8. May 13, 2025 REFERRED TO AGING · lower
  9. Jun 4, 2025 RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY · upper
  10. Jun 4, 2025 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
  11. Jun 4, 2025 VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING · upper
  12. Jun 4, 2025 AMENDED ON THIRD READING 561A · upper
  13. Jun 10, 2025 REPASSED SENATE · upper
  14. Jun 10, 2025 RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  15. Jun 10, 2025 REFERRED TO AGING · lower
  16. Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
  17. Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
  18. Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT · upper
  19. Jan 27, 2026 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
  20. Jan 27, 2026 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
  21. Mar 24, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.589 · upper
  22. Mar 25, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
  23. Mar 26, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
  24. May 18, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
  25. May 18, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  26. May 18, 2026 REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS · lower

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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S00561 Summary: BILL NO S00561A &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A01863-B

&nbsp SPONSOR KRUEGER &nbsp COSPNSR CLEARE, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, RIVERA, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add §26-605.2, NYC Ad Cd; amd §§467-b & 467-c, RPT L &nbsp Requires certain agencies and individuals to provide notice regarding the rent increase exemption for low income elderly persons and persons with disabilities programs to tenants upon the occurrence of certain events.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

561--A

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

(Prefiled)

January 8, 2025 ___________

Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, CLEARE, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, RIVERA, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the real property tax law, in relation to notice regarding the rent increase exemption for low income elderly persons and persons with disabilities programs

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended 2 by adding a new section 26-605.2 to read as follows: 3 § 26-605.2 Required notice. (a) A tenant residing in a dwelling unit 4 subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be furnished a notice 5 informing such tenant about the tenant's potential eligibility for a 6 rent increase exemption pursuant to this chapter and sections four 7 hundred sixty-seven-b and four hundred sixty-seven-c of the the real 8 property tax law. The form and content of such notice shall be promul- 9 gated as required by paragraph i of subdivision three of section four 10 hundred sixty-seven-b of the real property tax law, provided that such 11 notice shall clearly and conspicuously display the eligibility require- 12 ments for the rent increase exemption and the website address and tele- 13 phone number where tenants may obtain more information.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01748-05-5

S. 561--A 2

1 (b) The notice required by subdivision (a) of this section shall be 2 furnished by the following agencies or individuals at the same time as 3 the notice required by the occurrence of the following events: 4 (1) The state commissioner of housing and community renewal shall 5 provide such notice to a tenant in the event of: 6 (i) Receipt of an application for a rent adjustment due to a major 7 capital improvement; 8 (ii) A rent increase pursuant to section thirty-one of the private 9 housing finance law; 10 (iii) Receipt of the annual certification required by section thirty- 11 one of the private housing finance law; and 12 (iv) For dwelling units subject to chapter three of this title, a 13 maximum base rent adjustment pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision g 14 of section 26-405 of this title. 15 (2) The landlord of a dwelling unit shall provide such notice to a 16 tenant: 17 (i) With an initial lease and any renewal lease; and 18 (ii) Upon the annual registration of a housing accommodation as 19 required by section 26-517 of this title. 20 (c) When notice is furnished pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision 21 (b) of this section, such notice shall include specific information as 22 to the agency providing such notice. 23 § 2. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section 467-b 24 of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the laws of 25 2015, is amended to read as follows: 26 (2) (A) a landlord of any housing accommodation subject to provisions 27 of the local emergency housing rent control act, the emergency tenant 28 protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursu- 29 ant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabili- 30 zation law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall, at least once annually, 31 including with a new lease and all renewal leases and upon the annual 32 registration of a housing accommodation as required by section 26-517 of 33 the administrative code of the city of New York delivered to the occu- 34 pant of such accommodation, provide the informational material describ- 35 ing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior citizen rent increase 36 exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program, as 37 provided by the entity administering the program pursuant to subpara- 38 graph one of this paragraph. 39 (B) The notice required by clause (A) of this subparagraph shall be 40 furnished by the state commissioner of housing and community renewal to 41 a tenant at the same time as: 42 (i) Receipt of an application for a rent adjustment due to a major 43 capital improvement; 44 (ii) A rent increase pursuant to section thirty-one of the private 45 housing finance law; 46 (iii) Receipt of the annual certification required by section thirty- 47 one of the private housing finance law; and 48 (iv) For dwelling units subject to chapter three of title twenty-six 49 of the administrative code of the city of New York, a maximum base rent 50 adjustment pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision g of section 26-405 51 of the administrative code of the city of New York. 52 (C) When notice is furnished pursuant to clause (B) of this subpara- 53 graph, such notice shall include specific information as to the agency 54 providing such notice. 55 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 467-c of the real property tax law is 56 amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:

S. 561--A 3

1 e. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a tenant 2 residing in a dwelling unit subject to the provisions of this section 3 shall be furnished a notice informing such tenant about the tenant's 4 potential eligibility for a rent increase exemption pursuant to this 5 section. The form and content of such notice shall be promulgated as 6 required by paragraph i of subdivision three of section four hundred 7 sixty-seven-b of this title. 8 (2) The notice required by subparagraph one of this paragraph shall be 9 furnished by the following agencies or individuals at the same time as 10 the notice required by the occurrence of the following events: 11 (A) The state commissioner of housing and community renewal shall 12 provide such notice to a tenant in the event of: 13 (i) Receipt of an application for a rent adjustment due to a major 14 capital improvement; 15 (ii) A rent increase pursuant to section thirty-one of the private 16 housing finance law; 17 (iii) Receipt of the annual certification required by section thirty- 18 one of the private housing finance law; and 19 (iv) For dwelling units subject to chapter three of title twenty-six 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York, a maximum base rent 21 adjustment pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision g of section 26-405 22 of the administrative code of the city of New York. 23 (B) The landlord of a dwelling unit shall provide such notice to a 24 tenant: 25 (i) With an initial lease and any renewal lease; and 26 (ii) Upon the annual registration of a housing accommodation as 27 required by section 26-517 of the administrative code of the city of New 28 York. 29 (3) When notice is furnished pursuant to clause (A) of subparagraph 30 two of this paragraph, such notice shall include specific information as 31 to the agency providing such notice. 32 § 4. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 33 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment 34 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 35 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 36 completed on or before such effective date.

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