Senate Bill S6904

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to certain housing accommodations

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S6904 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §26-511, add §§26-511.2 & 26-513.1, NYC Ad Cd; amd §§6, 10 & 9, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S6352

2025-S6904 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that when a housing accommodation has been vacated after continuous tenancy or occupancy of ten years or more prior to vacancy, and the owner can demonstrate restoration of the unit, the new legal regulated rent shall be the rent agreed to by the owner and first tenant after such restoration and reserved in a lease or other rental agreement; makes related provisions.

2025-S6904 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6904 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6904
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 26, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  FERNANDEZ, SEPULVEDA, ADDABBO, MARTINEZ,
   PARKER, PERSAUD, SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered  printed,
   and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on Housing,
   Construction and Community Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation to certain housing accommodations; and to amend the emergency
   tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation to certain
   hardship provisions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision c of section 26-511 of the administrative  code
 of  the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 16 to read
 as follows:
   (16) PROVIDES THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS  CHAP-
 TER  TO THE CONTRARY, WHEN A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION SUBJECT TO THIS CHAP-
 TER HAS BEEN VACATED AFTER CONTINUOUS TENANCY OR OCCUPANCY OF TEN  YEARS
 OR  MORE  PRIOR TO VACANCY, AND THE OWNER CAN DEMONSTRATE RESTORATION OF
 THE UNIT AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 26-511.2 OF THIS CHAPTER, THE NEW LEGAL
 REGULATED RENT SHALL BE THE RENT AGREED TO BY THE OWNER AND FIRST TENANT
 AFTER SUCH RESTORATION AND RESERVED IN A LEASE OR  OTHER  RENTAL  AGREE-
 MENT; PROVIDED THAT SUCH NEW LEGAL REGULATED RENT:  (I) SHALL NOT EXCEED
 THE SECTION 8 VOUCHER PAYMENT STANDARD ADOPTED BY A LOCAL PUBLIC HOUSING
 AGENCY  FOR A UNIT OF THE SAME SIZE AND LOCATED WITHIN THE SAME ZIP CODE
 THAT WAS IN EFFECT AT THE TIME THE LEASE WAS EXECUTED; AND (II)  MAY  BE
 ADJUSTED  ON  AUDIT BY THE DIVISION UNDER SECTION 26-511.2 OF THIS CHAP-
 TER, OR ON APPLICATION OF A TENANT OR OWNER UNDER  SECTION  26-513.1  OF
 THIS  CHAPTER.  THE  LEGAL  REGULATED  RENT ADJUSTMENT SET FORTH IN THIS
 PARAGRAPH SHALL BE KNOWN AS  THE  LOCAL  REGULATED  HOUSING  RESTORATION
 ADJUSTMENT.
   §  2.  The  administrative  code of the city of New York is amended by
 adding a new section 26-511.2 to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05862-01-5
              

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