Bill Text: NY S03942 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to allowing a residential tenant to deduct water payments he or she makes for a deficient landlord from his or her rent.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-08-24 - signed chap.143 [S03942 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03942-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3942--A Cal. No. 701 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 21, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to allowing tenants to deduct water payments they make for deficient landlords from their rent The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 235-a of the real property law, as 2 amended by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. In any case in which a residential tenant shall lawfully make a 5 payment to a utility company pursuant to the provisions of sections 6 thirty-three, thirty-four and one hundred sixteen of the public service 7 law, or to a utility company as defined in subdivision twenty-three of 8 section two of the public service law, public authority, water-works 9 corporation, as defined in subdivision twenty-seven of section two of 10 the public service law, or municipal water system, as prescribed in 11 section eighty-nine-l of the public service law, for water service which 12 a landlord is responsible for but has failed or refused to provide 13 payment therefor, such payment shall be deductible from any future 14 payment of rent. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04833-03-9