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NY A01498
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
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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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