A 8816: Provides tenants with the option to execute leases and rental agreements electronically.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8816 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY June 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to providing tenants with the right to execute leases electronically The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 2 226-d to read as follows: 3 § 226-d. Lease paper reduction election. Notwithstanding any contrary 4 service or delivery requirements of this section or any other provision 5 of law, in entering or renewing any lease or rental agreement, tenants 6 and renters shall be given the right to elect to receive and, as needed, 7 execute such lease or rental agreement, any required renewal, and any 8 rider or notice served under, or required by, the lease or any statute, 9 code, ordinance, or other authority, solely by electronic means. Those 10 electronic documents shall have the same force and effect as would paper 11 originals. This election shall not apply to any service of process or 12 predicate notices in judicial proceedings. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13295-01-5