New York S 3218: Prohibits certain surcharges on self-installed dishwashers in housing accommodations subject to rent control

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S03218 Summary:

BILL NOS03218 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORKAVANAGH

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COSPNSRJACKSON

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §26-418, amd §26-512, NYC Ad Cd; amd §6, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §4, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L

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Prohibits surcharges on self-installed dishwashers in housing accommodations subject to rent control when the tenant pays for electric utility service.

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BILL NOS03218 

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01/24/2025REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

03/03/20251ST REPORT CAL.428

03/04/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/05/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

04/27/2026RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3218

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 24, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, JACKSON -- 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, the
 emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
 gency housing rent control law, in relation to prohibiting surcharges
 for the installation or use of dishwashers in housing accommodations
 subject to rent regulation

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

 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 2 by adding a new section 26-418 to read as follows:
 3 § 26-418 Surcharges for tenant-installed dishwashers; prohibited. The
 4 imposition of any surcharge for the installation and use of a tenant-in-
 5 stalled dishwasher is prohibited where the tenant pays for electric
 6 utility service.
 7 § 2. Section 6 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
 8 constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
 9 four, is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
 10 h. No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of
 11 this section shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use of
 12 a tenant-installed dishwasher where the tenant pays for electric utility
 13 service.
 14 § 3. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York
 15 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
 16 h. No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of
 17 this law shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use of a
 18 tenant-installed dishwasher where the tenant pays for electric utility
 19 service.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06911-01-5

 S. 3218 2

 1 § 4. Subdivision 4 of section 4 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
 2 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, is amended by
 3 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
 4 (h) No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of
 5 this law shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use of a
 6 tenant-installed dishwasher where the tenant pays for electric utility
 7 service.
 8 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that: (a)
 9 section 26-418 of the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by
 10 section one of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as
 11 long as the public emergency requires the regulation and control of
 12 residential rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3
 13 of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act; and
 14 (b) the amendments to section 26-512 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the
 15 administrative code of the city of New York, made by section three of
 16 this act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not
 17 affect the expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of
 18 such law.

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