New York A 7705: Provides for the de-regulation of rent-stabilized housing accommodations

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A07705 Summary:

BILL NOA07705 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORFitzpatrick

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Relates to the de-regulation of rent-stabilized housing accommodations; eliminates rent regulation for any regulated housing accommodation that becomes vacant on or after June 16, 2026; makes exceptions.

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BILL NOA07705 

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04/08/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7705

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Housing

 AN ACT to amend the emergency housing rent control law, the local emer-
 gency housing rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act of
 nineteen seventy-four and the administrative code of the city of New
 York, in relation to the de-regulation of rent-stabilized housing
 accommodations upon vacancy

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 2 of section 2 of chapter 274
 2 of the laws of 1946, constituting the emergency housing rent control
 3 law, as amended by chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read
 4 as follows:
 5 (i) housing accommodations which become vacant on and after June
 6 sixteenth, two thousand twenty-six, provided, however, that this
 7 exemption shall not apply or become effective where the commission
 8 determines or finds that the housing accommodations became vacant
 9 because the landlord or any person acting on [his] such landlord's
 10 behalf, with intent to cause the tenant to vacate, engaged in any course
 11 of conduct (including, but not limited to, interruption or discontin-
 12 uance of essential services) which interfered with or disturbed or was
 13 intended to interfere with or disturb the comfort, repose, peace or
 14 quiet of the tenant in [his] such tenant's use or occupancy of the hous-
 15 ing accommodations; [and further provided that housing accommodations as
 16 to which a housing emergency has been declared pursuant to the emergency
 17 tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four shall be subject to the
 18 provisions of such act for the duration of such emergency;] or
 19 § 2. The second undesignated paragraph of subdivision 5 of section 1
 20 of chapter 21 of the laws of 1962, constituting the local emergency
 21 housing rent control act, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 2003,
 22 is amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08978-01-5

 A. 7705 2

 1 Notwithstanding any local law or ordinance, housing accommodations
 2 which [became] become vacant (a) on or after July first, nineteen
 3 hundred seventy-one [or which hereafter become vacant], but before June
 4 sixteenth, two thousand twenty-six shall be subject to the provisions of
 5 the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, and (b) on
 6 or after June sixteenth, two thousand twenty-six shall be exempt from
 7 regulations and control; provided, however, that [this provision] these
 8 exemptions shall not apply or become effective with respect to housing
 9 accommodations which, by local law or ordinance, are made directly
 10 subject to regulation and control by a city housing rent agency and such
 11 agency determines or finds that the housing accommodations became vacant
 12 because the landlord or any person acting on [his] such landlord's
 13 behalf, with intent to cause the tenant to vacate, engaged in any course
 14 of conduct (including but not limited to, interruption or discontinuance
 15 of essential services) which interfered with or disturbed or was
 16 intended to interfere with or disturb the comfort, repose, peace or
 17 quiet of the tenant in [his] such tenant's use or occupancy of the hous-
 18 ing accommodations. Th