New York A 8898: Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms the actions of the Huntington union free school district regardless of the failure of such district to timely file final building cost reports

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A08898 Summary:

BILL NOA08898 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08046-A

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SPONSORBurroughs

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§10-b & 12, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §8-a, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L

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Requires an annual inspection and audit process which shall review five percent of individual apartment improvement notifications for rent stabilized apartments outside of the city of New York; requires additional audits where violations are found.

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BILL NOA08898 

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06/12/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8898

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 June 12, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BURROUGHS -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Housing

 AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen
 seventy-four and the emergency housing rent control law, in relation
 to audits of 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. Subdivision (c) of section 10-b of section 4 of chapter 576
 2 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of
 3 nineteen seventy-four, as added by section 6 of part K of chapter 36 of
 4 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 5 (c) The division shall establish, for regulated units located in any
 6 city having a population of less than one million, or a town or village,
 7 for which an emergency has been declared pursuant to section three of
 8 this act, an annual inspection and audit process which shall review five
 9 percent of individual apartment improvement notifications pursuant to
 10 this section and the rules and regulations of the division. Such process
 11 shall include individual inspections and document review to ensure that
 12 owners complied with all obligations and responsibilities under the law
 13 for individual apartment improvements. Inspections shall include in-per-
 14 son confirmation that such improvements have been completed in such way
 15 as described in the notification. In the event an audit finds that the
 16 recoverable costs claimed by the landlord cannot be substantiated,
 17 the resulting overcharge shall be considered to be willful.
 18 (d) The division shall issue a notice to the landlord and all the
 19 tenants sixty days prior to the end of the temporary major capital
 20 improvement increase and shall include the initial approved increase and
 21 the total amount to be removed from the legal regulated rent inclusive
 22 of any increases granted by the applicable rent guidelines board.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13107-03-5

 A. 8898 2

 1 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 8-a of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
 2 constituting the emergency housing rent control law is renumbered subdi-
 3 vision 5 and two new subdivisions 3 and 4 are added to read as follows:
 4 3. The division shall establish, for housing accommodations outside of
 5 the city of New York, an annual inspection and audit process which shall
 6 review five percent of individual apartment improvement notifications
 7 pursuant to this section and the rules and regulations of the divi-
 8 sion. Such process shall include individual inspections and document
 9 review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and
 10 responsibilities under the law for individual apartment improvements.
 11 Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such improve-
 12 ments have been completed in such way as described in the notification.
 13 In the event an audit finds that the recoverable costs claimed by
 14 the landlord cannot be substantiated, the resulting overcharge shall be
 15 considered to be willful.
 16 4. If the owner is found to have willfully overcharged a tenant as a
 17 result of the conclusion of an audit pursuant to subdivision two or
 18 three of this section, the division shall conduct additional audits of
 19 all ho