File #: Int 1274-2018    Version: Name: Requiring landlords to obtain and provide tenants with the previous four years of rental history.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 11/28/2018
Enactment date: 6/8/2019 Law number: 2019/113
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring landlords to obtain and provide tenants with the previous four years of rental history
Sponsors: Mark Levine, Brad S. Lander, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Rory I. Lancman, Diana I. Ayala, Ben Kallos, Helen K. Rosenthal, Carlina Rivera
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require owners of multiple dwellings to obtain the previous four years rent history from the department of housing and community renewal for each dwelling unit, if available, and provide such information to the current tenant of each such dwelling unit.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1274-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1274, 3. Int. No. 1274, 4. November 28, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-28-2018, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 28, 2018, 7. Committee Report 12/13/18, 8. Hearing Testimony 12/13/18, 9. Hearing Transcript 12/13/18, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1274-A - 5/7/19, 11. Committee Report 5/7/19, 12. Hearing Transcript 5/7/19, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. May 8, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-8-19, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 8, 2019, 17. Int. No. 1274-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 113
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6/11/2019AMark Levine City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/8/2019AMark Levine Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
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5/7/2019*Mark Levine Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/7/2019*Mark Levine Committee on Housing and Buildings Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
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12/13/2018*Mark Levine Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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11/28/2018*Mark Levine City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/28/2018*Mark Levine City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1274-A

 

By Council Members Levine, Lander, Ampry-Samuel, Lancman, Ayala, Kallos, Rosenthal and Rivera

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring landlords to obtain and provide tenants with the previous four years of rental history

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 27-2005 of article 1 of subchapter 2 of chapter 2 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:

g. The owner of a multiple dwelling shall obtain for each dwelling unit, where available, the previous four years of rent amounts from the New York state division of housing and community renewal, and provide such rent amounts to the current tenant of such dwelling unit.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the commissioner of housing preservation and development may take such measures as are necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, before such date.

 

 

 

 

 

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