Bill Text: NY A00728 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits landlords from refusing to deal with certain people solely because those people were involved in prior summary proceedings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A00728 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00728-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL,  GOTTFRIED,  HEVESI, DINOWITZ,
          COLTON, CYMBROWITZ, GLICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  ARROYO,
          PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing -- commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to a tenant blacklist

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  296  of the executive law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
     3    (a-1) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for  the  owner,
     4  lessee,  sublessee,  assignee,  or  managing  agent of publicly-assisted
     5  housing accommodations or  other person having the right of ownership or
     6  possession of or the right to rent or  lease    such  accommodations  to
     7  refuse  to sell, rent or lease or otherwise deny or to withhold from any
     8  person or group of persons such a housing  accommodation  on  the  basis
     9  that  such  person or group of persons were involved in past, ongoing or
    10  current landlord-tenant action  or  summary  proceeding  emanating  from
    11  article seven of the real property law, except where the tenant or group
    12  of tenants have not satisfied the order.
    13    §  2.  Subdivision 3-b of section 296 of the executive law, as amended
    14  by chapter 8 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    15    3-b. It shall be an unlawful  discriminatory  practice  for  any  real
    16  estate  broker,  real estate salesperson or employee or agent thereof or
    17  any other individual, corporation, partnership or organization  for  the
    18  purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which any such person
    19  or any of its stockholders or members may benefit financially, to repre-
    20  sent  that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition
    21  with respect to race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation,
    22  gender identity or expression, military status, sex,  disability,  past,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  ongoing  or current landlord-tenant action or summary proceeding emanat-
     2  ing from article seven of the real  property  law,  marital  status,  or
     3  familial status of the owners or occupants in the block, neighborhood or
     4  area  in  which the real property is located, and to represent, directly
     5  or indirectly, that this change will or may result in undesirable conse-
     6  quences in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is
     7  located, including but not limited to the lowering of  property  values,
     8  an  increase  in  criminal  or anti-social behavior, or a decline in the
     9  quality of schools or other facilities.
    10    § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 296  of  the  executive
    11  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 1-a to read as follows:
    12    (1-a)  It  shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the owner,
    13  lessee, sublessee, assignee, or managing agent of, or any  other  person
    14  having  the  right  to  sell,  rent  or  lease  a housing accommodation,
    15  constructed or to be constructed, or any agent or employee  thereof,  to
    16  refuse  to sell, rent or lease or otherwise deny or to withhold from any
    17  person or group of persons such a housing  accommodation  on  the  basis
    18  that  such  person or group of persons were involved in past, ongoing or
    19  current landlord-tenant action  or  summary  proceeding  emanating  from
    20  article  seven  of  the  real property law,   except where the tenant or
    21  group of tenants have not satisfied the order.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.