New York A 2619: Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings
Status: REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES (as of 2026-05-12)
State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 2619
Sponsors: Linda Rosenthal, Al Taylor, Albert A. Stirpe, Alex Bores, Catalina Cruz, Chantel Jackson, Charles Lavine, Chris Burdick, Dana Levenberg, David Weprin, Deborah Glick, Edward Braunstein, Emily Gallagher, Grace Lee, Jeffrey Dinowitz, Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Jo Anne Simon, Jonathan Rivera, Jordan Wright, Karines Reyes, Keith Powers, Khaleel Anderson, Landon C. Dais, Marcela Mitaynes, Maritza Davila
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Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly • • • • • • • • Skip to main content New York State Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie --> --> --> • Assembly Members • Legislative Info • Public Hearings • Speaker's Press • Assembly Reports • Committees & More • Bill Search Home • Laws • Legislative Calendar • Public Hearing Schedule • Assembly Calendars • Assembly Committee Agenda Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. Bill No.: • Summary • Actions • Committee Votes • Floor Votes • Memo • Text • LFIN • Chamber Video/Transcript A02619 Summary: BILL NOA02619A   SAME ASSAME AS S02433-A   SPONSORRosenthal   COSPNSRDinowitz, Simon, Glick, Seawright, Simone, Bores, Berger, Shimsky, Braunstein, Burdick, Rozic, Kim, Davila, Weprin, Jackson, Tapia, Anderson, Cruz, Gallagher, Dais, Chandler-Waterman, Mamdani, Rivera, Taylor, Reyes, Raga, Mitaynes, Levenberg, Carroll R, Gonzalez-Rojas, Steck, Powers, Schiavoni, Lavine, Stirpe, Wright, Lee   MLTSPNSR   Add §233-c, RP L   Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings. Go to top A02619 Actions: BILL NOA02619A   01/21/2025referred to housing 05/15/2025amend (t) and recommit to housing 05/15/2025print number 2619a 05/19/2025reported referred to rules 01/07/2026referred to housing 05/12/2026reported referred to rules Go to topA02619 Committee Votes: Committee:HOUSING Chair:Rosenthal DATE:05/19/2025AYE/NAY:17/9 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules RosenthalAyeNovakhovNay CookAyeFitzpatrickNay KimAbsentBrown K Nay WalkerAyeBrown EANay CruzAyeBrook-KrasnyNay DavilaAyeChangNay EpsteinAyeMaherNay EichensteinNayNorberNay AndersonAye BurdickAye RiveraAye JacksonAye KellesAye TapiaAye LucasAbsent Chandler-WatermAye LeeAye LevenbergAye DaisAye TorresAye Committee:HOUSING Chair:Rosenthal DATE:05/12/2026AYE/NAY:18/5 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules RosenthalAyeFitzpatrickExcused CookExcusedNovakhovAye KimAyeBrown K Nay WalkerAyeBrown EANay Bichotte HermelAyeBrook-KrasnyAye DavilaAyeChangAye EichensteinNayNorberNay MeeksExcusedMolitorNay BurdickExcused RiveraAye JacksonAye KellesAye TapiaAye LucasExcused Chandler-WatermAye LevenbergAye DaisAye TorresAye ReyesAye ZaccaroAye Go to topA02619 Floor Votes: There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session. Go to topA02619 Text: STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2619--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, SIMON, GLICK, SEAWRIGHT, SIMONE, BORES, BERGER, SHIMSKY, BRAUNSTEIN, EPSTEIN, BURDICK, ROZIC, KIM, DAVILA, WEPRIN, JACKSON, TAPIA, ANDERSON, CRUZ, PAULIN, GALLAGH- ER, DAIS, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, MAMDANI, RIVERA, TAYLOR, REYES, RAGA, MITAYNES, BROOK-KRASNY, LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the real property law, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing certain rights upon expira- tion of leases for ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 233-c of the real property law is amended by adding 2 three new subdivisions 3, 4, and 5 to read as follows: 3 3. (a) Within ten days of the expiration or termination of a subject 4 residential cooperative ground lease, the ground lease residential coop- 5 erative shall initiate the process to dissolve the ground lease residen- 6 tial cooperative as prescribed by the applicable laws under which the 7 ground lease residential cooperative was formed. 8 (b) Upon deconversion, residents entitled to occupancy in such ground 9 lease residential cooperative immediately prior to the deconversion 10 shall be deemed to be tenants. The subject ground lease owners shall 11 offer such tenants rental leases pursuant to the emergency tenant 12 protection act of nineteen seventy-four, the rent stabilization law of 13 nineteen sixty-nine and any regulations, rules and policies enacted 14 pursuant thereto or the good cause eviction law of article six-A of this 15 chapter, as applicable to the building. 16 4. (a) If any subject residential cooperative ground lease does not 17 contain express provisions prohibiting a ground lease residential coop- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04667-06-5 A. 2619--A 2 1 erative from encumbering its interest in a subject residential cooper- 2
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