New York S 4659: Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency
Status: PRINT NUMBER 4659C (as of 2026-04-06)
State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 4659
Sponsors: Brian Kavanagh, Andrew Gounardes, April Baskin, Cordell Cleare, Erik Bottcher, Gustavo Rivera, Jabari Brisport, Jamaal Bailey, James Sanders Jr., Jessica Ramos, John Liu, José M. Serrano, Julia Salazar, Kevin S. Parker, Kristen Gonzalez, Lea Webb, Liz Krueger, Luis R. Sepúlveda, Michelle Hinchey, Pete Harckham, Rachel May, Robert Jackson, Samra Brouk, Shelley Mayer, Toby Ann Stavisky
Bill Text
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 S04659 Summary: BILL NOS04659D   SAME ASSAME AS A04877-D   SPONSORKAVANAGH   COSPNSRBAILEY, BASKIN, BOTTCHER, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MAYER, MYRIE, PARKER, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, STAVISKY, WEBB   MLTSPNSR   Amd §§3 & 5, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974   Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency; authorizes a city with a population of one million or more to declare an emergency as to any class of housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations in such class within such municipality is not in excess of five percent and a declaration of emergency may be made as to all housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations within such municipality is not in excess of five percent; authorizes other cities, towns and villages to declare a housing emergency after considering publicly available data and holding public hearings. Go to top S04659 Actions: BILL NOS04659D   02/10/2025REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 02/14/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 02/14/2025PRINT NUMBER 4659A 01/07/2026REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 03/26/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 03/26/2026PRINT NUMBER 4659B 03/31/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE 04/06/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE 04/06/2026PRINT NUMBER 4659C 06/01/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE 06/01/2026PRINT NUMBER 4659D Go to topS04659 Committee Votes: Go to topS04659 Floor Votes: There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session. Go to topS04659 Text: STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4659--D 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, BAILEY, BASKIN, BOTTCHER, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MAYER, MYRIE, PARKER, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, STAVISKY, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven- ty-four, in relation to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "rent emergency stabilization for tenants act". 3 § 2. Section 3 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, 4 constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy- 5 four, subdivision a as amended by chapter 69 of the laws of 1980, subdi- 6 visions d, f and g as added by chapter 698 of the laws of 2023 and 7 subdivision e as amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 2024, is amended 8 to read as follows: 9 § 3. Local determination of emergency; end of emergency. a. The exist- 10 ence of public emergency requiring the regulation of residential rents 11 for all or any class or classes of housing accommodations, including any EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05109-11-6 S. 4659--D 2 1 plot or parcel of land which had been rented prior to May first, nine- 2 teen hundred fifty, for the purpose of permittin
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