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- Referred to infrastructure and capital investment
- Committee discharged and committed to infrastructure and capital investment
- Referred to finance
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Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of major capital improvements
In Assembly Committee · Housing · Sponsor Linda Rosenthal
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S2217
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the division of housing and community renewal to establish a publicly accessible online database of building-wide major capital improvements
Purpose or general idea of bill
The purpose of this legislation is to require the Division of Housing and Community Renewal to maintain a searchable online database of building-wide major capital improvements.
Summary of specific provisions
The bill will add section 260-a of the of the executive law to require the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal to publish on the DHCR website a database of building-wide major capital improvements installed by any landlord in every city with a population of more than one million inhabitants. This database will include the item's cost, make and model, location of purchase, name of person or company conducting the installation and the installation cost.
Justification
Major capital improvements permanently raise monthly rates for rent-controlled or stabilized tenants and are often fraudulently tiled by landlords to collect increases. By storing basic MCI informational, most of which is already collected by DHCR in an accessible online database, tenants will be empowered to check if the MCI information tiled by their landlord matches reality. This will offer them an effective deterrent against fraud and give them the information necessary to verify the accuracy of their rent increases.
Prior legislative history
A.9981 of 2010
Fiscal implications
As DHCR already maintains a website, the additional cost posed by this feature should be extremely marginal.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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