New York A 1769: Establishes procedures related to home instruction

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A01769 Summary:

BILL NOA01769 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRChandler-Waterman

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §14, Pub Hous L; add §307-b, RPT L; add §99-ss, St Fin L

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Directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal to create and maintain a database of vacant residential housing units, and to create an affordable housing development program; imposes a tax on vacant residential housing units; creates an affordable housing development program fund.

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BILL NOA01769 

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01/14/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1769

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, CHANDLER-WATERMAN -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Housing

 AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to maintaining a
 database of vacant residential housing units and establishing an
 affordable housing development program; to amend the real property tax
 law, in relation to imposing a tax on certain vacant residential hous-
 ing units; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to estab-
 lishing an affordable housing development fund

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

 1 Section 1. Section 14 of the public housing law is amended by adding
 2 two new subdivisions 8 and 9 to read as follows:
 3 8. (a) The commissioner shall establish and maintain a public database
 4 of all residential dwelling units, in multiple dwellings containing six
 5 or more separate units, that have been vacant for at least one hundred
 6 eighty days in the state of New York.
 7 (b) The owner of any multiple dwelling with at least six separate
 8 residential dwelling units shall register with the database, under
 9 penalty of perjury, all units:
 10 (i) that have been vacant for at least one hundred eighty days;
 11 (ii) whose last tenant paid a rent that was rent stabilized, rent
 12 controlled, administered by a state or local section eight administering
 13 agency, or an amount of rent which was charged with the approval of a
 14 federal, state or local governmental agency; and
 15 (iii) that the owner is not offering for rent at a legal rate or less.
 16 9. The commissioner shall establish an "affordable housing development
 17 program", which shall use monies received by the commissioner from the
 18 affordable housing development fund pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdi-
 19 vision three of section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law, for the
 20 following purposes:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04462-01-5

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 1 (a) to provide rental subsidies for individuals age sixty-two or older
 2 and rental subsidies for households with a combined household income of
 3 fifty thousand dollars or less; and
 4 (b) the acquisition and rehabilitation of multi-unit buildings, in
 5 which at least one-third of residential units are unoccupied, for
 6 affordable housing, and the operation of such buildings acquired and/or
 7 rehabilitated under such program.
 8 § 2. The real property tax law is amended by adding a new section
 9 307-b to read as follows:
 10 § 307-b. Additional tax on vacant residential housing units. 1. Gener-
 11 ally. Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special, or local
 12 law to the contrary, an annual real property tax surcharge shall be
 13 imposed in accordance with this section on each owner that owns a multi-
 14 ple dwelling containing one or more vacant residential housing units.
 15 2. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall
 16 have the following meanings:
 17 (a) "Dwelling" means any building or structure or portion thereof that
 18 is occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence or sleeping place
 19 of one or more human beings.
 20 (b) "Multiple dwelling" means a dwelling that is either rented,
 21 leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as t