Bill Text: NY S07756 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 7756 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires landlords of rent stabilized housing accommodations to immediately add the names of the tenant's spouse to the lease and any renewals thereof upon request by the tenant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-29 - PRINT NUMBER 7756A [S07756 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07756-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7756--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 14, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community  Development  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  requiring  landlords of rent stabilized housing accommo-
          dations to immediately add the name of  the  tenant's  spouse  to  the
          lease and any renewals thereof upon request by the tenant

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision c of section 26-511 of the administrative  code
     2  of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 4-a to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (4-a)  includes  provisions requiring landlords to immediately add the
     5  name of the tenant's spouse to the lease and any renewals  thereof  upon
     6  request by the tenant;
     7    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
     8  ments to section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of  the  administrative
     9  code  of  the  city  of  New  York made by section one of this act shall
    10  expire on the same date as such law expires and  shall  not  affect  the
    11  expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11060-03-0