New York S 4099: Requires landlord to grant access to engineer or architect hired by tenants to inspect major capital improvements in certain multiple dwellings

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S04099 Summary:

BILL NOS04099 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01886

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SPONSORPARKER

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COSPNSRJACKSON, SEPULVEDA

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§26-405 & 26-511, NYC Ad Cd; amd §6, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §4, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L

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Provides that no landlord shall deny access to a licensed professional engineer or licensed registered architect hired by any tenant or tenant association representing tenants of a multiple dwelling of six units or more for the purpose of conducting an inspection of a major capital improvement for which an application for a maximum rent adjustment has been filed by the landlord; provides that such inspection shall be conducted after notice to the landlord and during normal business hours; provides for the filing of such inspection report by such tenants with the New York city rent agency or the state division of housing and community renewal for consideration in such application's determination.

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BILL NOS04099 

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01/31/2025REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

03/03/20251ST REPORT CAL.431

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

02/25/20261ST REPORT CAL.404

02/26/20262ND REPORT CAL.

03/04/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/28/2026PASSED SENATE

05/28/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/28/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4099

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 31, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. PARKER, JACKSON, SEPULVEDA -- 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 inspection of major
 capital improvements for which rent increases are requested and in
 relation to extending the provisions of the rent stabilization law

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (g) of paragraph 1 of subdivision g of section
 2 26-405 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by
 3 section 27 of part Q of chapter 39 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
 4 read as follows:
 5 (g) There has been since July first, nineteen hundred seventy, a major
 6 capital improvement essential for the preservation energy efficiency,
 7 functionality, or infrastructure of the entire building, improvement of
 8 the structure including heating, windows, plumbing and roofing but shall
 9 not be for operational costs or unnecessary cosmetic improvements. The
 10 temporary increase based upon a major capital improvement under this
 11 subparagraph for any order of the commissioner issued after [the effec-
 12 tive date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen that
 13 amended this subparagraph] June 14, 2019 shall be in an amount suffi-
 14 cient to amortize the cost of the improvements pursuant to this subpara-
 15 graph [(g)] over a twelve-year period for buildings with thirty-five or
 16 fewer units or a twelve and one-half year period for buildings with more
 17 than thirty-five units, and shall be removed from the legal regulated
 18 rent thirty years from the date the increase became effective inclusive
 19 of any increases granted by the applicable rent guidelines board. Tempo-
 20 rary major capital improvement increases shall be collectible prospec-
 21 tively on the first day of the first month beginning sixty days from the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04468-01-5

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 1 date of mailing notice of approval to the tenant. Such notice shall
 2 disclose the total monthly increase in rent and the first month in which
 3 the tenant would be required to pay the temporary increase. An approval
 4 for a temporary major c