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S03835 Summary:

BILL NOS03835 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04893

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SPONSORHINCHEY

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COSPNSRJACKSON, MAY

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 20-A §§1125 - 1127, Priv Hous Fin L; amd §2429-b, Pub Auth L

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Establishes the manufactured home community preservation act to provide financial and technical assistance, within funds available to counties, municipalities, rural preservation companies, and other non-profit housing organizations for their housing preservation efforts; provides that funds in the mortgage insurance fund can be used to provide financial support to local governments and eligible non-profit housing organizations.

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BILL NOS03835 

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01/30/2025REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

05/19/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

02/10/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

03/24/20261ST REPORT CAL.599

03/25/20262ND REPORT CAL.

03/26/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

04/21/2026PASSED SENATE

04/21/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/22/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3835

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 30, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
 Community Development

 AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to estab-
 lishing the manufactured home community preservation act; and to amend
 the public authorities law, in relation to the distribution of funds
 in the mortgage insurance fund

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

 1 Section 1. The private housing finance law is amended by adding a new
 2 article 20-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE XX-A
 4 MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT
 5 Section 1125. Definitions.
 6 1126. State mobile and manufactured home communities preserva-
 7 tion program.
 8 1127. Financial support to acquire development rights or
 9 purchase mobile home and manufactured home parks.
 10 § 1125. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
 11 1. "Development rights" means the rights of the fee simple owner to
 12 develop, construct on, divide, sell, lease, or otherwise change the
 13 property from its current use as a mobile home or manufactured home
 14 park, or other affordable housing option as permitted by the land coven-
 15 ant at the time of sale. Development rights include the exercise of the
 16 owner's rights to sell or grant easements or rights of way, or other
 17 rights if by that exercise the use of the land as a mobile home or manu-
 18 factured home park is diminished; provided, however, that the term
 19 "development rights" shall not include the rights of the owner to sell,
 20 lease, or otherwise improve the land to preserve, maintain, operate, or
 21 continue the land as a mobile home or manufactured home park or all

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08128-01-5

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 1 other customary rights and privilege of ownership, including the right
 2 to privacy.
 3 2. "Current property value" means the fair market value of a property
 4 that is restricted by an easement or covenant to its use as a mobile
 5 home or manufactured home park rather than the highest or best potential
 6 use.
 7 3. "Mobile home and manufactured home park protection agreement" means
 8 preemptive purchase rights or other provisions that are part of or
 9 linked to a protection conservation easement or covenant providing the
 10 easement holder the preferential right to purchase a protected mobile
 11 home and manufactured home park at its current use value in the event
 12 the landowner intends to sell such property to a purchaser who does not
 13 intend to maintain the property as a mobile home and manufactured home
 14 park.
 15 § 1126. State mobile and manufactured home communities preservation
 16 program. 1. The commissioner, or their a