New York A 437: Imposes civil penalties on landlords for including unenforceable provisions in residential leases

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A00437 Summary:

BILL NOA00437 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00743

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SPONSORDinowitz

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COSPNSRWeprin, Cruz, Seawright

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §400.00, Pen L; ren §2 to be §3, add §2, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.6649 & A.2882)

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Includes rifles and shotguns in required warnings to consumers regarding the risk of death or suicide in homes where such weapons are present.

Go to top A00437 Actions:

BILL NOA00437 

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01/08/2025referred to codes

01/22/2025reported referred to rules

01/22/2025reported 

01/22/2025rules report cal.42

01/22/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.42

03/19/2025substituted by s743

&nbspS00743 AMEND= GIANARIS

&nbsp01/08/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp01/13/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.18

&nbsp02/03/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp02/03/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp02/03/2025referred to codes

&nbsp03/19/2025substituted for a437

&nbsp03/19/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.42

&nbsp03/19/2025passed assembly

&nbsp03/19/2025returned to senate

&nbsp03/31/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp04/03/2025SIGNED CHAP.114

Go to topA00437 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:01/22/2025AYE/NAY:15/5 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloNay

CookAyeReillyNay

LavineAyeMikulinExcused

WeprinAyeTannousisNay

HevesiAyeAngelinoNay

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAye

CruzAye

EpsteinAye

BoresAye

ReyesAye

CunninghamAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezExcused

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:01/22/2025AYE/NAY:20/9 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayNay

PretlowAyeHawleyNay

CookAyeBlankenbushNay

GlickAyeRaNay

DinowitzAyeBrabenecNay

ColtonAyePalmesanoNay

MagnarelliAyeReillyNay

PaulinAyeSmithNay

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenNay

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaExcused

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA00437 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA00437 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 437

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to requiring warnings regard-
 ing rifles and shotguns; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2024
 amending the penal law relating to warnings to be posted and provided
 by firearms dealers, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.6649
 and A. 2882, in relation to making certain technical corrections ther-
 eto

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 20 of section 400.00 of the penal law, as added
 2 by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the penal law relating to
 3 warnings to be posted and provided by firearms dealers, as proposed in
 4 legislative bills numbers S.6649 and A. 2882, is amended to read as
 5 follows:
 6 20. Firearms dealers; required warnings. (a) (i) Every person licensed
 7 as a gunsmith or a dealer in firearms shall post the following notice at
 8 the site where such [weapons] rifles, shotguns, or firearms are sold,
 9 displayed or delivered to the purchaser, at the entrance to the site and
 10 in at least one additional area where sales occur, conspicuously stat-
 11 ing, in no smaller than twenty-six-point type on a sign at least eight
 12 and one-half by eleven inches in bold print:

 13 WARNING

 14 ACCESS TO A [WEAPON] RIFLE, SHOTGUN,
 15 OR FIREARM IN THE HOME SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES THE
 16 RISK OF SUICIDE, DEATH DURING DOMESTIC DISPUTES, AND/OR UNINTENTIONAL
 17 DEATHS TO CHILDREN, HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS AND OTHERS.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02673-01-5

 A. 437 2

 1 IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE IS EXPERIENCING DISTRESS AND/OR DEPRESSION, CALL
 2 THE NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE AT 988.
 3 (ii) Every firearms dealer shall distribute a notice to the purchaser
 4 at the time of each individual sale of a [weapon] rifle, shotgun, or
 5 firearm, conspicuously stating, in no smaller than twenty-six-poi