New York S 6346: Requires cooperative housing corporations provide a prospective purchaser with a written statement of reasons when withholding consent to a purchase

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S06346 Summary:

BILL NOS06346 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07803

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SPONSORSANDERS

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COSPNSR

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Amd §19-a, Civ Rts L

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Requires cooperative housing corporations provide a prospective purchaser with a written statement of reasons when withholding consent to a purchase; voids any agreement inconsistent with such requirement.

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BILL NOS06346 

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03/11/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6346

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 11, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to discrimination in
 the ownership of cooperative housing

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative findings and declaration of intent. The legis-
 2 lature recognizes that cooperative ownership in multi-family dwellings
 3 is a popular form of home ownership in New York state. An ongoing
 4 concern for consumers dealing in the cooperative housing market is the
 5 potential for the unlawful rejection by a board of directors of a buyer.
 6 The legislature finds and determines that, not infrequently, a co-op
 7 board rejects what appears to be a well-qualified customer. Often, the
 8 prospective purchaser has concerns that the rejection was in fact unlaw-
 9 ful discrimination. Both federal and state laws protect our citizens
 10 from unfair housing practices, which include discrimination based upon
 11 race, ethnicity, gender, age or family status.
 12 For such reasons, it is the legislature's intent to require boards of
 13 directors of cooperative housing to disclose to proposed purchasers, the
 14 reasons for rejecting a sale.
 15 § 2. Section 19-a of the civil rights law, as added by chapter 376 of
 16 the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
 17 § 19-a. Prohibition against unreasonable withholding of consent.
 18 Whenever any corporation formed for the purpose of the cooperative
 19 ownership of real estate within the state withholds consent to the sale
 20 or proposed sale of certificates of stock or other evidence of ownership
 21 of an interest in such corporation, such corporation shall provide the
 22 prospective purchaser with a written statement of its reasons for with-
 23 holding consent no later than thirty days after its decision to withhold
 24 consent.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06369-01-5

 S. 6346 2

 1 1. No such corporation [formed for the purpose of the cooperative
 2 ownership of real estate within the state] shall withhold [its] such
 3 consent [to the sale or proposed sale of certificates of stock or other
 4 evidence of ownership of an interest in such corporation] because of the
 5 race, creed, national origin, or sex of the purchaser.
 6 2. For the purposes of this section a "corporation" shall include the
 7 cooperative management, cooperative tenants, cooperative shareholders,
 8 or any appointee or successor in interest of a corporation.
 9 3. This section shall apply to every sale or proposed sale whether by
 10 a corporation directly, its successor in interest, or by any other
 11 lawfully entitled party.
 12 4. Every agreement, negative covenant, restrictive covenant or other
 13 provision, whether written or oral and wherever contained, inconsistent
 14 with this section shall be void and unenforceable.
 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 16 have become a law.

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