A11176 • 2025

Relates to unlawful discriminatory practices against tenants relating to citizenship or immigration status

Housing

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Sponsor: Gabriella Romero
Last action: 2026-05-01
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to unlawful discriminatory practices against tenants relating to citizenship or immigration status

Relates to unlawful discriminatory practices against tenants relating to citizenship or immigration status Prohibits landlords or their agents from inquiring or requiring disclosure about citizenship or immigration status, requiring specific immigration documentation to be presented, disclosing immigration or citizenship status to third parties, or threatening to report a tenant's citizenship or immigration status in retaliation for asserting their rights.

What This Bill Does

Relates to unlawful discriminatory practices against tenants relating to citizenship or immigration status Prohibits landlords or their agents from inquiring or requiring disclosure about citizenship or immigration status, requiring specific immigration documentation to be presented, disclosing immigration or citizenship status to third parties, or threatening to report a tenant's citizenship or immigration status in retaliation for asserting their rights.

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Bill History

2026-05-01 Assembly
REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Official Summary Text

Relates to unlawful discriminatory practices against tenants relating to citizenship or immigration status
Prohibits landlords or their agents from inquiring or requiring disclosure about citizenship or immigration status, requiring specific immigration documentation to be presented, disclosing immigration or citizenship status to third parties, or threatening to report a tenant's citizenship or immigration status in retaliation for asserting their rights.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11176

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 1, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ROMERO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to unlawful discriminato-
          ry  practices  against  tenants relating to citizenship or immigration
          status

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 296 of the execu-
     2  tive law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 5 to read as follows:
     3    (5) (I) TO INQUIRE ABOUT OR REQUIRE DISCLOSURE OF CITIZENSHIP OR IMMI-
     4  GRATION STATUS;
     5    (II)  TO REQUIRE SPECIFIC IMMIGRATION DOCUMENTATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT
     6  LIMITED TO A GREEN CARD OR SIMILAR DOCUMENTATION, AS THE SOLE ACCEPTABLE
     7  FORM OF IDENTIFICATION;
     8    (III) TO DISCLOSE A TENANT'S  IMMIGRATION  OR  CITIZENSHIP  STATUS  TO
     9  THIRD  PARTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES, EXCEPT
    10  WHEN REQUIRED BY COURT ORDER; OR
    11    (IV) TO REPORT OR THREATEN TO REPORT A TENANT'S CITIZENSHIP  OR  IMMI-
    12  GRATION  STATUS  TO IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES IN RETALIATION FOR ASSERTING
    13  RIGHTS UNDER THIS CHAPTER OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW.
    14    § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 296 of the executive law is  amended  by
    15  adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
    16    (I)  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBPARAGRAPH  FIVE  OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS
    17  SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO PROHIBIT AN  OWNER,  LESSEE,  SUB-
    18  LESSEE, ASSIGNEE, OR MANAGING AGENT OF, OR OTHER PERSON HAVING THE RIGHT
    19  TO  SELL,  RENT  OR  LEASE A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION, CONSTRUCTED OR TO BE
    20  CONSTRUCTED, OR ANY AGENT OR EMPLOYEE THEREOF, FROM:
    21    (1) VERIFYING THE IDENTITY OF A POTENTIAL TENANT OR  CONDUCTING  OTHER
    22  STANDARD TENANT SCREENING PRACTICES THAT ARE OTHERWISE LAWFUL; PROVIDED,
    23  HOWEVER,  THAT  SUCH  IDENTITY  VERIFICATION  OR  OTHER  STANDARD TENANT
    24  SCREENING PRACTICE SHALL NOT IMPOSE  HEIGHTENED  REQUIREMENTS  BASED  ON
    25  CITIZENSHIP OR IMMIGRATION STATUS; OR

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14712-01-6
        A. 11176                            2

     1    (2) COMPLYING WITH FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS REGARDING CITIZENSHIP OR IMMI-
     2  GRATION  STATUS  FOR  FEDERALLY  SUBSIDIZED  HOUSING PROGRAMS THAT WOULD
     3  OTHERWISE BE PROHIBITED UNDER THIS CHAPTER.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.