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Jan 07, 2015 |
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Senate Bill S528
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 21st Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S528 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S528 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S528 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the real property law, in relation to providing prospective lessees with the property's bedbug infestation history for the previous year PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : To allow tenants the opportunity to examine the facts regarding the bedbug infestation history of a building, condo or an apartment within the past year in order to make an educated determination about the health and safety of the property. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Section 1: The real property law is amended by adding a new section 235-h, requiring that prospective lessees shall be furnished with a notice outlining the property's bedbug infestation history for the previous year. Information shall include the premises to be rented and the building in which the premises is located. JUSTIFICATION : While prospective tenants in New York City are now legally entitled to know if an individual apartment or building has been infested with bedbugs within the past year, other municipalities do not enjoy this protection. This legislation would correct this inequality by expanding the protections of the 2010 Bedbug Disclosure Act to all New Yorkers. PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY : A.5177 of 2011-2012
2015-S528 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 528 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to providing prospec- tive lessees with the property's bedbug infestation history for the previous year THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 235-h to read as follows: S 235-H. NOTICE OF BEDBUG INFESTATION HISTORY. 1. ALL PROSPECTIVE LESSEES SHALL BE FURNISHED WITH A NOTICE, IN A FORM PROMULGATED OR APPROVED BY THE STATE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL, THAT SETS FORTH THE PROPERTY'S BEDBUG INFESTATION HISTORY FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR. 2. INFORMATION SHALL INCLUDE ANY BEDBUG INFESTATION OF THE PREMISES TO BE RENTED BY THE PROSPECTIVE TENANT AND THE BUILDING IN WHICH THE PREM- ISES ARE LOCATED. 3. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE. 4. THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, CO-OP SALES AND CO-OP AND CONDO RENTALS. S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law. Provided, however, that the commissioner of the state division of housing and community renewal may take any action necessary for the timely implementation of this act on or before the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04073-01-5
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