Bill Text: NY S04084 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4084 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides that records of eviction proceeding shall be sealed when the leased property was foreclosed upon; prohibits use and disclosure of any such information relating to a tenant; imposes fine of between $1,000 and $2,000 for violations thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S04084 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04084-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4084--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 27, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community  Development  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the  real  property  actions  and  proceedings  law,  in
          relation  to sealing the court records of evictions of tenants leasing
          real property that is the subject of a foreclosure

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

     1    Section 1. The real property actions and proceedings law is amended by
     2  adding a new section 757 to read as follows:
     3    §  757.  Eviction  as  the  result of foreclosure. In the event that a
     4  lessee is removed from real property pursuant to this article,  and  the
     5  leased  real property was the subject of a foreclosure proceeding pursu-
     6  ant to this chapter or the subject of a tax foreclosure proceeding,  the
     7  court  records relating to any such lessee shall be sealed and be deemed
     8  confidential. No disclosure or use of such information relating  to  any
     9  such  lessee  shall be authorized, and the use of such information shall
    10  be prohibited. Any violation of this section by a private  person  shall
    11  result  in  a  civil  penalty of not less than one thousand dollars, nor
    12  more than two thousand dollars.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05954-02-9