A 10311: Requires a procedure for notification of a family member of a tenant or cooperator in the case that their application to succeed a lease or occupancy agreement is denied by a limited-profit housing company.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10311  IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2026 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT requiring a hearing by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development of the City of New York or the Division of Housing and Community Renewal where a family member applies and is denied by a housing company to succeed a lease or sublease The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Where a family member of a tenant or cooperator is denied 2 an application to succeed a lease or sublease or to remain in occupancy 3 by a housing company and the family member appeals such decisions pursu- 4 ant to 28 RCNY 3-02 (p) or 9 NYCRR 1727-8.4, such family member shall be 5 entitled to a hearing held by the Commissioner of Department of Housing 6 Preservation and Development of the City of New York or the Commissioner 7 of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal with the family 8 member, or their designee, and any interested witnesses to review the 9 housing company's determination and any additional information submitted 10 by the family member. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 13 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 14 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 15 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14892-01-6