Bill Text: NY A00328 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 328

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that records of eviction proceeding shall be sealed when the leased property was foreclosed upon; prohibits use and disclosure of any such information relating to a tenant; imposes fine of between $1,000 and $2,000 for violations thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A00328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00328-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           328

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property  actions and proceedings law, in
          relation to the imposition of civil penalties for failure to seal  the
          court  records  of  evictions of tenants leasing real property that is
          the subject of a foreclosure

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  757 of the real property actions and proceedings
     2  law, as added by section 23 of part M of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 757. Eviction as the result of foreclosure.  In  the  event  that  a
     5  lessee  is  removed from real property pursuant to this article, and the
     6  leased real property was the subject of a foreclosure proceeding  pursu-
     7  ant  to this chapter or the subject of a tax foreclosure proceeding, the
     8  court records relating to any such lessee shall be sealed and be  deemed
     9  confidential.  No  disclosure or use of such information relating to any
    10  such lessee shall be authorized, and the use of such  information  shall
    11  be  prohibited.  Any violation of this section by a private person shall
    12  result in a civil penalty of not less than  one  thousand  dollars,  nor
    13  more than two thousand dollars.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00999-01-3