New York S 8452: Enacts the regulating equality in neighborhood tenancy act

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S08452 Summary:

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Amd §§291, 296 & 295, Exec L; add §227-g, amd §233, RP L; add §397-c, Gen Bus L; amd §18-c, Civ Rts L

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Enacts the regulating equality in neighborhood tenancy act; prohibits discrimination in housing based on credit scores.

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07/09/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8452

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 July 9, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, the real property law, the general
 business law and the civil rights law, in relation to enacting the
 "regulating equality in neighborhood tenancy" act to prohibit discrim-
 ination in housing based on credit scores

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "regulating
 2 equality in neighborhood tenancy" act.
 3 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 291 of the executive law, as amended by
 4 chapter 8 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 5 2. The opportunity to obtain education, the use of places of public
 6 accommodation and the ownership, use and occupancy of housing accommo-
 7 dations and commercial space without discrimination because of age,
 8 race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity
 9 or expression, military status, sex, marital status, [or] disability, or
 10 credit score, as specified in section two hundred ninety-six of this
 11 article, is hereby recognized as and declared to be a civil right.
 12 § 3. Paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (c-1) of subdivision 2-a of section
 13 296 of the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748
 14 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
 15 (a) To refuse to sell, rent or lease or otherwise to deny to or with-
 16 hold from any person or group of persons such housing accommodations
 17 because of the race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizen-
 18 ship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or
 19 expression, military status, age, sex, marital status, status as a
 20 victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income [or], familial
 21 status or credit score of such person or persons, or to represent that
 22 any housing accommodation or land is not available for inspection, sale,
 23 rental or lease when in fact it is so available.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13439-01-5

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 1 (b) To discriminate against any person because of [his or her] their
 2 race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizenship or immi-
 3 gration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mili-
 4 tary status, age, sex, marital status, status as a victim of domestic
 5 violence, lawful source of income [or], familial status or credit score
 6 in the terms, conditions or privileges of any publicly-assisted housing
 7 accommodations or in the furnishing of facilities or services in
 8 connection therewith.
 9 (c) To cause to be made any written or oral inquiry or record concern-
 10 ing the race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizenship or
 11 immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
 12 membership in the reserve armed forces of the United States or in the
 13 organized militia of the state, age, sex, marital status, status as a
 14 victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income [or], familial
 15 status or credit score of a person seeking to rent or lease any public-
 16 ly-assisted housing accommodation; provided, however, that nothing in
 17 this subdivision shall prohibit a member of the reserve armed forces of
 18 the United States or in the organized militia of