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NY A03156
Bill
Status
1/23/2025
Primary Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
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AI Summary
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Expands tenant rent offset rights from fuel oil delivery only to include repairs and maintenance of oil-fired or other heating devices when landlords fail to provide heat
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Requires tenants to make reasonable efforts to contact the landlord and use the building's normal repair/maintenance service agency before arranging their own repairs
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Mandates service agencies provide itemized written statements detailing equipment, parts, and labor charges separately, along with date, time, and location of service
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Requires the department enforcing multiple dwelling laws to maintain and update monthly a price index for emergency heating device repairs and a list of participating service agencies
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Protects tenants who deduct repair costs from rent in good faith from retaliatory eviction proceedings and entitles them to recover attorney's fees if landlords bring such actions
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Makes it a violation for landlords, agents, or janitors to willfully obstruct or prevent heating device repairs or maintenance ordered under these provisions
Legislative Description
Allows tenants the right to offset rent with payments made for the repair or service maintenance of an oil fired or other heating device where reasonable efforts were made to notify the landlord of the heating failure, the agency used is reasonably engaged in the business of making such repairs and an itemized bill for such service is provided.
Last Action
referred to housing
1/7/2026