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A1510Assembly2025-2026 Session

Require Fast Rent Check Cashing

Official title

“Relates to the timely cashing of rent checks”

Sponsor Linda RosenthalAD-67Affects Housing
Status
In Assembly Committee
Housing
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
13%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Housing

What's happening

This bill requires landlords in New York to cash tenant rent checks within thirty days or face a $250 civil penalty.

Why it matters

  1. Protects tenants from unexpected financial disruptions. by ensuring landlords cannot hold onto rent checks for long periods, which could lead to overdrafts or budgeting issues if a check is cashed late.

  2. Creates direct accountability for landlords. through a specific civil penalty ($250) if they fail to cash rent checks within 30 days, giving tenants a clear recourse if their payments are mishandled.

  3. Encourages more transparent and predictable rent payment processing. , helping tenants better track their finances and reducing disputes over whether rent was paid or received on time.

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Require Fast Rent Check Cashing

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Linda Rosenthal

Assembly Member · Assembly District 67

Chair, Housing

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History

  1. Referred to housing
  2. Referred to housing

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1510

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 10, 2025

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

AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to the timely cashing of rent checks

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

Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 235-k to read as follows:

§ 235-k. Timely cashing of rent check. 1. A landlord shall cash a rent check provided by a tenant in their possession within thirty days after the check is postmarked.

2. Any landlord who violates this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD04661-01-5

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