New York A 8131: Provides that municipal broadband service companies are authorized to provide broadband service to tenants in multi-family housing

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A08131 Summary:

BILL NOA08131 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07601

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SPONSORKelles

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COSPNSROtis

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §228, Pub Serv L

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Provides that municipal broadband service companies are authorized to provide broadband service to tenants in multi-family housing; provides that landlords shall not interfere with the installation of such service, demand or accept payment for allowing the service on the property, or discriminate in rental charges between tenants who receive broadband service and those that don't.

Go to top A08131 Actions:

BILL NOA08131 

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05/01/2025referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

05/23/2025amend and recommit to corporations, authorities and commissions

05/23/2025print number 8131a

05/28/2025reported referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

02/23/2026amend by restoring to original print 8131

05/13/2026reported referred to rules

05/14/2026reported 

05/14/2026rules report cal.121

05/14/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.121

Go to topA08131 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/13/2026AYE/NAY:14/4 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloNay

GlickAyeReillyExcused

LavineAyeMikulinExcused

WeprinAyeTannousisNay

HevesiAyeAngelinoNay

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelExcused

CruzAye

BoresAbsent

ReyesAye

CunninghamAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

TaylorAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:05/14/2026AYE/NAY:20/7 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedRaNay

PretlowAyeHawleyNay

CookExcusedBlankenbushNay

GlickAyeBrabenecNay

DinowitzAyePalmesanoNay

ColtonAyeReillyExcused

MagnarelliAyeSmithNay

PaulinAyeJensenAye

Peoples-StokesExcusedGandolfoNay

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Committee:CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS Chair:Braunstein 
DATE:05/28/2025AYE/NAY:17/8 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes BraunsteinAyeLemondesNay

CookAyeBlankenbushNay

OtisAyeFriendNay

RozicAyePalmesanoNay

KimAyeAngelinoNay

DilanAyeJensenNay

Pheffer AmatoAyeBlumencranzNay

CarrollAyeBaileyNay

FallExcused

Gonzalez-RojasAye

ZinermanAye

TapiaAye

JacobsonAye

BoresAye

ShimskyAye

SimoneAye

ConradAye

LasherAye

Go to topA08131 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA08131 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8131

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 1, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to broadband service
 in multi-family housing

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

 1 Section 1. Section 228 of the public service law, as added by chapter
 2 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 228. Landlord-tenant relationship. 1. No landlord shall (a) inter-
 4 fere with the installation of cable television facilities or municipal
 5 broadband service upon [his] their property or premises, except that a
 6 landlord may require:
 7 (1) that the installation of cable television facilities or municipal
 8 broadband service conform to such reasonable conditions as are necessary
 9 to protect the safety, functioning and appearance of the premises, and
 10 the convenience and well being of other tenants;
 11 (2) that the cable television or municipal broadband service company
 12 or the tenant or a combination thereof bear the entire cost of the
 13 installation, operation or removal of such facilities; and
 14 (3) that the cable television or municipal broadband service company
 15 agree to indemnify the landlord for any damage caused by the installa-
 16 tion, operation or removal of such facilities.
 17 (b) demand or accept payment from any tenant, in any form, in exchange
 18 for permitting cable television service or municipal broadband service
 19 on or within [his] their property or premises, or from any cable tele-
 20 vision or municipal broadband service company in exchange therefor in
 21 excess of any amount which the commission shall, by r