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A1563 • 2025

Relates to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations

Relates to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations

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
2026-05-12
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations

Relates to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-12 Assembly

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

  2. 2026-05-12 Assembly

    DELIVERED TO SENATE

  3. 2026-05-12 Senate

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  4. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.63

  5. 2025-05-29 Assembly

    REPORTED

  6. 2025-05-29 Assembly

    RULES REPORT CAL.293

  7. 2025-05-29 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.293

  8. 2025-05-20 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  9. 2025-05-07 Assembly

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO WAYS AND MEANS

  10. 2025-05-07 Assembly

    PRINT NUMBER 1563A

  11. 2025-02-25 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  12. 2025-01-10 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HOUSING

Official Summary Text

Relates to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations
Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          1563

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 10, 2025
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to information to
          be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accom-
          modations

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section
     2  467-b of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the  laws
     3  of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (2)  a  landlord of any housing accommodation subject to provisions of
     5  the local emergency housing  rent  control  act,  the  emergency  tenant
     6  protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursu-
     7  ant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabili-
     8  zation  law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall[, at least once annual-
     9  ly, including] INCLUDE with [a] ALL new  [lease  and  all]  AND  renewal
    10  leases,  ON  ANY  RENT  BILLS,  INCLUDING  ANY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION,
    11  delivered to the occupant of such accommodation[,] provide the  informa-
    12  tional  material  describing  eligibility  for  and  the benefits of the
    13  senior citizen rent increase exemption program and the  disability  rent
    14  increase  exemption program, as provided by the entity administering the
    15  program pursuant to subparagraph one of this paragraph.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04268-01-5