Bill Text: NY A03984 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to housing [A03984 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03984-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3984

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, HEVESI, GLICK, COLTON --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        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 separate-
    14  ly  amended  by  chapters 202 and 748 of the laws of 2022, is amended to
    15  read as follows:
    16    3-b. It shall be an unlawful  discriminatory  practice  for  any  real
    17  estate  broker,  real estate salesperson or employee or agent thereof or
    18  any other individual, corporation, partnership or organization  for  the
    19  purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which any such person
    20  or any of its stockholders or members may benefit financially, to repre-
    21  sent  that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition
    22  with respect to race, creed,  color,  national  origin,  citizenship  or
    23  immigration  status,  sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
    24  military status, sex, disability,  past, ongoing  or  current  landlord-
    25  tenant  action or summary proceeding emanating from article seven of the
    26  real property law, marital  status,  status  as  a  victim  of  domestic

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