New York A 7830: Relates to the rental assistance payment standard pilot program

Status: REFERRED TO HOUSING (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 7830

Sponsors: Chantel Jackson, Al Taylor, Alicia Hyndman, Andrew Hevesi, Catalina Cruz, David Weprin, George Alvarez, Jordan Wright, Michael Benedetto, Monique Chandler-Waterman, Nader Sayegh

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A07830 Summary:

BILL NOA07830 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06914

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SPONSORJackson

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COSPNSRBenedetto, Hevesi, Hyndman, Cruz, Weprin, Wright, Chandler-Waterman, Alvarez, Taylor, Sayegh

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §226-d, RP L

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Establishes the rental assistance payment standard pilot program where the owner of a housing accommodation shall be entitled to charge and collect a rent equal to the maximum amount that the rental assistance program prescribes for like housing accommodations, subject to rent reasonableness calculations.

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04/11/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7830

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 11, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Housing

 AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to the rental assist-
 ance payment standard pilot program; and providing for the repeal of
 such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section
 2 226-d to read as follows:
 3 § 226-d. Rental assistance payment standard pilot program. 1. Where
 4 the requirements of this section are satisfied, the owner of a housing
 5 accommodation shall be entitled to charge and collect a rent equal to
 6 the maximum amount that the rental assistance program prescribes for
 7 like housing accommodations, subject to rent reasonableness calcu-
 8 lations, notwithstanding that such rental amount might exceed rent limi-
 9 tations under any other applicable law or regulation.
 10 2. A housing accommodation shall be subject to the provisions of
 11 subdivision one of this section if the housing accommodation is regis-
 12 tered as vacant with the state housing agency for registration year two
 13 thousand twenty-five and is subsequently rented to a tenant who is the
 14 recipient of a rental assistance housing voucher under any federal,
 15 state, or local program, and such rental assistance is provided pursuant
 16 to a payment agreement between the owner and applicable housing agency
 17 with respect to the housing accommodation. Only housing accommodations
 18 in buildings constructed prior to January first, nineteen hundred seven-
 19 ty-four shall be eligible.
 20 3. Where a rent prescribed by a rental assistance program pursuant to
 21 subdivision one of this section exceeds the legal regulated rent, pref-
 22 erential rent, or maximum collectible rent for such housing accommo-
 23 dation, such legal regulated rent, preferential rent, or maximum collec-
 24 tible rent shall be preserved and registered with the state housing

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11281-01-5

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 1 agency, as applicable, subject to any increases allowed by law as if the
 2 apartment were rented in the normal course during the same time period.
 3 The legal rent shall be reinstated, subject to any allowable increases,
 4 when the housing accommodation is no longer subject to the rental
 5 assistance program.
 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 7 deemed repealed June 15, 2027, except that any housing accommodation
 8 with a vacancy lease start date before June 15, 2027 shall continue to
 9 be covered by this act for as long as such housing accommodation is
 10 occupied by a tenant with a rental assistance housing voucher and
 11 covered by a payment agreement with a government entity.

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