New York A 1886: Requires landlord to grant access to engineer or architect hired by tenants to inspect major capital improvements in certain multiple dwellings

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A01886 Summary:

BILL NOA01886 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04099

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRRaga, Taylor, Burdick

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§26-405 & 26-511, NYC Ad Cd; amd §6, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §4, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L

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Provides that no landlord shall deny access to a licensed professional engineer or licensed registered architect hired by any tenant or tenant association representing tenants of a multiple dwelling of six units or more for the purpose of conducting an inspection of a major capital improvement for which an application for a maximum rent adjustment has been filed by the landlord; provides that such inspection shall be conducted after notice to the landlord and during normal business hours; provides for the filing of such inspection report by such tenants with the New York city rent agency or the state division of housing and community renewal for consideration in such application's determination.

Go to top A01886 Actions:

BILL NOA01886 

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01/14/2025referred to housing

05/13/2025reported referred to codes

06/05/2025reported referred to rules

06/11/2025reported 

06/11/2025rules report cal.604

06/11/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.604

01/07/2026ordered to third reading cal.72

Go to topA01886 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:HOUSING Chair:Rosenthal 
DATE:05/13/2025AYE/NAY:18/9 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes RosenthalAyeNovakhovNay

CookAyeFitzpatrickNay

KimAyeBrown K Nay

WalkerAyeBrown EANay

Bichotte HermelAyeBrook-KrasnyNay

DavilaExcusedChangNay

EpsteinAyeMaherNay

EichensteinNayNorberNay

MeeksAye

BurdickAye

RiveraAye

JacksonAye

KellesAye

TapiaAye

LucasAye

Chandler-WatermAye

LeeAye

LevenbergAye

DaisAye

TorresAye

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:06/05/2025AYE/NAY:15/6 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloNay

CookAyeReillyNay

LavineAyeMikulinNay

WeprinAyeTannousisNay

HevesiAyeAngelinoNay

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelExcused

CruzAye

EpsteinAye

BoresAye

ReyesAye

LasherAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/11/2025AYE/NAY:19/9 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayNay

PretlowAyeHawleyNay

CookAyeBlankenbushNay

GlickAyeRaNay

DinowitzAyeBrabenecNay

ColtonAyePalmesanoNay

MagnarelliExcusedReillyNay

PaulinAyeSmithNay

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenNay

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaExcused

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA01886 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA01886 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1886

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, RAGA, TAYLOR -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Housing

 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the
 emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
 gency housing rent control law, in relation to inspection of major
 capital improvements for which rent increases are requested and in
 relation to extending the provisions of the rent stabilization law

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (g) of paragraph 1 of subdivision g of section
 2 26-405 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by
 3 section 27 of part Q of chapter 39 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
 4 read as follows:
 5 (g) There has been since July first, nineteen hundred seventy, a major
 6 capital improvement essential for the preservation energy efficiency,
 7 functionality, or infrastructure of the entire building, improvement of
 8 the structure including heating, windows, plumbing and roofing but shall
 9 not be for operational costs or unnecessary cosmetic improvements. The
 10 temporary increase based upon a major capital improvement under this
 11 subparagraph for any order of the commissioner issued after [the effec-
 12 tive date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen that
 13 amended this subparagraph] June 14, 2019 shall be in an amount suffi-
 14 cient to amortize the cost of the im