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S09707 Summary:

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Amd §8-a, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L

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Prohibits temporary major capital improvement increases for buildings where the owner has demonstrated a pattern of violations unless the applicant shows by clear and convincing evidence that the proposed improvement will directly and substantially remedy those violations.

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04/02/2026REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9707

 IN SENATE

 April 2, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 emergency housing rent control law, in relation to
 major capital improvements and individual apartment improvements in
 rent regulated units

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 of section 8-a of
 2 chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, constituting the emergency housing rent
 3 control law, as added by section 7 of part K of chapter 36 of the laws
 4 of 2019, are amended and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as
 5 follows:
 6 (d) prohibit temporary major capital improvement increases for build-
 7 ings with outstanding hazardous or immediately hazardous violations of
 8 the Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code (Uniform Code), New York
 9 City Fire Code, or New York City Building and Housing Maintenance Codes,
 10 if applicable; and prohibit temporary major capital improvement
 11 increases for buildings where the owner, or any person acting on the
 12 owner's behalf, has, within the look-back period defined in subdivision
 13 four of this section, demonstrated a pattern of violations meeting the
 14 threshold set forth in subdivision four of this section, unless the
 15 applicant shows by clear and convincing evidence that the proposed
 16 improvement will directly and substantially remedy those violations;
 17 (e) prohibit individual apartment improvement increases for housing
 18 accommodations with outstanding hazardous or immediately hazardous
 19 violations of the Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code (Uniform
 20 Code), New York City Fire Code, or New York City Building and Housing
 21 Maintenance Codes, if applicable; and prohibit individual apartment
 22 improvement increases for housing accommodations where the owner, or any
 23 person acting on the owner's behalf, has, within the look-back period
 24 defined in subdivision four of this section, demonstrated a pattern of
 25 violations meeting the threshold set forth in subdivision four of this
 26 section, unless the applicant shows by clear and convincing evidence

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11970-02-5

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 1 that the proposed improvement will directly and substantially remedy
 2 those violations;
 3 4. For the purposes of this section:
 4 (a) a "look-back period" shall mean the twenty-four-month period imme-
 5 diately preceding the filing of an application for a major capital
 6 improvement or individual apartment improvement increase. The commission
 7 may, by regulation, extend the look-back period to no more than thirty-
 8 six months if it determines that a longer window is necessary to capture
 9 a sufficient history of violations;
 10 (b) a "pattern of violations" shall be deemed to exist when, during
 11 the look-back period, a municipal department having jurisdiction has
 12 issued three or more violations in any category listed in paragraph (c)
 13 of this subdivision, regardless of whether such violations remain open
 14 on the date of filing; and
 15 (c) qualifying violation categories are limited to the following: (i)
 16 heat or hot-water violations classified as hazardous or immediately
 17 hazardous; (ii) elevator or vertical-transportation v