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NY A01603

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/10/2025

Primary Sponsor

Phara Souffrant Forrest

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Reduces the primary residence requirement for family members to succeed to a rent-stabilized tenant's rights from two years to one year when the tenant permanently vacates

  • Maintains the existing one-year residency requirement for senior citizens and disabled persons seeking succession rights

  • Preserves exceptions allowing temporary relocations (military duty, full-time student enrollment, court orders, employment relocation, hospitalization, or other commissioner-approved grounds) without interrupting the residency period

  • Amends the Public Housing Law, Section 14, subdivision 4, paragraph (a)

Legislative Description

Relates to succession rights for rent stabilized housing; reduces the succession residency requirement from two years to one.

Last Action

referred to housing

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Housing1/10/2025

Full Bill Text

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