New York A 654: Increases penalties for owners of rent-regulated property who overcharge tenants

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A00654 Summary:

BILL NOA00654B

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SAME ASSAME AS S09694

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRDe Los Santos, Seawright, Raga, Cunningham, Hooks

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §12, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §26-516, NYC Ad Cd

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Increases penalties for owners of rent-regulated property who overcharge tenants.

Go to top A00654 Actions:

BILL NOA00654B

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01/08/2025referred to housing

03/24/2025amend (t) and recommit to housing

03/24/2025print number 654a

05/07/2025amend and recommit to housing

05/07/2025print number 654b

05/19/2025reported referred to codes

06/05/2025reported referred to rules

06/06/2025reported 

06/06/2025rules report cal.412

06/06/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.412

01/07/2026ordered to third reading cal.22

Go to topA00654 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:HOUSING Chair:Rosenthal 
DATE:05/19/2025AYE/NAY:18/8 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes RosenthalAyeNovakhovNay

CookAyeFitzpatrickNay

KimAbsentBrown K Nay

WalkerAyeBrown EANay

CruzAyeBrook-KrasnyNay

DavilaAyeChangNay

EpsteinAyeMaherNay

EichensteinAyeNorberNay

AndersonAye

BurdickAye

RiveraAye

JacksonAye

KellesAye

TapiaAye

LucasAbsent

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:Pretlow 
DATE:06/06/2025AYE/NAY:19/8 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayNay

PretlowAyeHawleyNay

CookAyeBlankenbushNay

GlickExcusedRaNay

DinowitzAyeBrabenecNay

ColtonAyePalmesanoNay

MagnarelliExcusedReillyNay

PaulinAyeSmithExcused

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenNay

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA00654 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA00654 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 654--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, DE LOS SANTOS, SEAWRIGHT, RAGA,
 CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
 ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven-
 ty-four, and the administrative code of the city of New York, in
 relation to increasing penalties for owners of rent-regulated property
 who overcharge tenants

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

 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph and clause (ii) of subparagraph (b)
 2 of paragraph 1 of subdivision a of section 12 of section 4 of chapter
 3 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection
 4 act of nineteen seventy-four, as amended by section 1 of part F of chap-
 5 ter 36 of the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
 6 Subject to the conditions and limitations of this paragraph, any owner
 7 of housing accommodations in a city having a population of less than one
 8 million or a town or village as to which an emergency has been declared
 9 pursuant to section three, who, upon complaint of a tenant or of the
 10 state division of housing and community renewal, is found by the state
 11 division of housing and community renewal, after a reasonable opportu-
 12 nity to be heard, to have collected an overcharge above the rent author-
 13 ized for a housing accommodation subject to this act shall be liable to
 14 the tenant for a penalty equal to [three] five times the amount of such
 15 overcharge. If the owner establishes by a preponderance of the evidence
 16 that the overcharge was neither willful nor attributable to [his] the
 17 owner's negligence, the state division of housing and community renewal
 18 shall establish the penalty as the amount of the