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A8234Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS1349

Disclose Extra Tenant Fees

Official title

“Relates to fees which an owner may charge tenants separate and apart from and in addition to the rent for the housing accommodation”

Sponsor Jeffrey DinowitzAD-81+3 co-sponsorsAffects Housing
Status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Impact
3/10
Low
Outcome
Companion signed

Bill progress

Signed via S1349

What's happening

This bill requires lease riders to disclose and describe any additional fees landlords may charge tenants beyond rent.

Why it matters

  1. Increases transparency for tenants. by requiring landlords to clearly disclose and describe all additional fees, helping renters better understand the full cost of their lease up front.

  2. Empowers tenants to challenge or question unfair or unexpected fees. , since landlords will be obligated to specify what each fee is for, making it harder to impose vague or hidden charges.

  3. Standardizes fee disclosure across rent-regulated housing. by mandating this information be included in the official lease rider, ensuring consistency and reducing ambiguity in tenant-landlord relationships.

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Disclose Extra Tenant Fees

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Jeffrey Dinowitz

Assembly Member · Assembly District 81

Chair, Codes

History

  1. Substituted by S1349B
  2. Rules report cal.566
  3. Reported
  4. Reported referred to rules
  5. Referred to housing

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S1349Senate

Disclose Extra Tenant Fees

Signed by Governor · Sponsor Marisol Alcantara

Impact 3 · LowSigned into law

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

8234

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

June 2, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to certain fees which an owner may charge tenants

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

Section 1. Section 14 of the public housing law is amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:

7. The lease rider promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen hundred seventy-four or the rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine which is provided to tenants shall set forth information relating to fees which an owner may charge tenants separate and apart from and in addition to the rent for the housing accommodation, as well as a description of such fees.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD06945-04-7

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