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NY A01603
Bill
Status
1/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Phara Souffrant Forrest
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AI Summary
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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
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Maintains the existing one-year residency requirement for senior citizens and disabled persons seeking succession rights
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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
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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