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NY A09220
Bill
Status
11/3/2025
Primary Sponsor
Micah Lasher
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AI Summary
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Creates new crime of "aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant" as a class D felony under Penal Law section 241.07
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Applies when an owner intentionally engages in systematic ongoing conduct targeting two or more rent regulated tenants in two or more buildings to induce them to vacate by impairing habitability, endangering health/safety, or disturbing comfort and peace
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Also applies when an owner commits first degree harassment of a rent regulated tenant and has a prior conviction for the same crime within the preceding five years
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Explicitly exempts good faith pursuit of lawful eviction actions from constituting prohibited "systematic ongoing course of conduct"
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law and repeals existing subdivision 3 of section 241.05 of the penal law
Legislative Description
Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant which occurs when an owner intentionally engages in a systematic ongoing course of conduct to induce three or more rent regulated tenants occupying different housing accommodations in two or more residential buildings to vacate such housing accommodations or if such owner commits the crime of harassment of a rent regulated tenant and was previously convicted of the same crime in the past five years.
Last Action
print number 9220a
2/19/2026