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S10510 • 2025

Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings meeting certain conditions

Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings meeting certain conditions

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Sponsor
Brian Kavanagh
Last action
2026-05-15
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings meeting certain conditions

Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings meeting certain conditions Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings that are potentially eligible for rental, lease, let or hiring out, and are located within communities of concern.

What This Bill Does

  • Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings meeting certain conditions Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings that are potentially eligible for rental, lease, let or hiring out, and are located within communities of concern.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-15 Senate

    REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings meeting certain conditions
Expands the state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residential dwellings that are potentially eligible for rental, lease, let or hiring out, and are located within communities of concern.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          10510

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  expanding  the
          state rental registry identifying lead hazards to include all residen-
          tial dwellings meeting certain conditions

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1377 of the public health law,  as
     2  added  by  section  2  of  part  T of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. The department shall, in consultation with the division of  housing
     5  and  community renewal, develop a registry for all residential dwellings
     6  [with two or more units] built prior to nineteen hundred  eighty  which,
     7  by  virtue of their property class designation, are potentially eligible
     8  for rental, lease, let or hiring out, and are located within communities
     9  of concern as identified by the department.  Such  registry  shall  only
    10  include  qualifying  residential  dwellings  outside a city with a popu-
    11  lation of one million people or more. The department shall  utilize  all
    12  available property information to develop the registry including but not
    13  limited  to  information  from tax assessment rolls and information from
    14  property records in the office in which instruments affecting real prop-
    15  erty in the county are recorded.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    17  the amendments to subdivision 1 of section 1377 of the public health law
    18  made  by  section  one  of  this act shall not affect the repeal of such
    19  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15862-01-6