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NY A01498

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/10/2025

Primary Sponsor

Linda Rosenthal

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Removes restrictions that currently prohibit New York City from adopting or amending local rent control laws and ordinances that go beyond state regulations
  • Eliminates the provision barring the city from subjecting currently exempt or decontrolled housing accommodations to new rent regulation and control
  • Deletes language that prevented the city from imposing more stringent rent regulation provisions than those already in effect without state commissioner approval
  • Updates gendered language throughout the statute, replacing "his," "her," and "his or her" with gender-neutral terms like "their" and "such landlord's"
  • Takes effect immediately but remains in force only as long as the public emergency requiring residential rent regulation continues

Legislative Description

Removes provisions that prohibit cities of one million or more from strengthening rent regulation laws to provide more comprehensive coverage than state laws.

Last Action

referred to housing

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Housing1/10/2025

Full Bill Text

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