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NY S08559
Bill
Status
10/29/2025
Primary Sponsor
Brian Kavanagh
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AI Summary
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Creates a new class D felony for "aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant" targeting landlords who systematically harass tenants across multiple buildings to force them to vacate
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Applies when an owner intentionally targets two or more rent regulated tenants in two or more residential buildings through conduct that impairs habitability, endangers health/safety, or disturbs tenants' peace and quiet
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Also establishes felony liability when an owner commits first-degree harassment of a rent regulated tenant and has been convicted of the same crime within the preceding five years
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Exempts good faith pursuit of lawful eviction proceedings from being considered part of a "systematic ongoing course of conduct" under the harassment provisions
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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 8559A
2/18/2026