A10311 • 2025

Requires a procedure for notification when a family member applies and is denied by a limited-profit housing company to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement

Housing

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Last action: 2026-05-05
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires a procedure for notification when a family member applies and is denied by a limited-profit housing company to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement

Requires a procedure for notification when a family member applies and is denied by a limited-profit housing company to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement Requires a procedure for notification of a family member of a tenant or cooperator in the case that their application to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement is denied by a limited-profit housing company.

What This Bill Does

Requires a procedure for notification when a family member applies and is denied by a limited-profit housing company to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement Requires a procedure for notification of a family member of a tenant or cooperator in the case that their application to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement is denied by a limited-profit housing company.

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Bill History

2026-05-05 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-03-31 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
2026-03-27 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING
2026-03-27 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 10311A
2026-02-20 Assembly
REFERRED TO HOUSING

Official Summary Text

Requires a procedure for notification when a family member applies and is denied by a limited-profit housing company to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement
Requires a procedure for notification of a family member of a tenant or cooperator in the case that their application to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement is denied by a limited-profit housing company.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10311

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 20, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing

        AN ACT requiring a hearing by the Department of Housing Preservation and
          Development of the City of New York or the  Division  of  Housing  and
          Community  Renewal  where  a  family member applies and is denied by a
          housing company to succeed a lease or sublease

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Where a family member of a tenant or cooperator is denied
     2  an application to succeed a lease or sublease or to remain in  occupancy
     3  by a housing company and the family member appeals such decisions pursu-
     4  ant to 28 RCNY 3-02 (p) or 9 NYCRR 1727-8.4, such family member shall be
     5  entitled  to a hearing held by the Commissioner of Department of Housing
     6  Preservation and Development of the City of New York or the Commissioner
     7  of   the Division of Housing  and  Community  Renewal  with  the  family
     8  member,  or  their  designee, and any interested witnesses to review the
     9  housing company's determination and any additional information submitted
    10  by the family member.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    13  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    14  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    15  on or before such effective date.




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