S 7183: Increases the penalties for housing related unlawful discriminatory practices based on the lawful source of income of the victim where the respondent receives federal, state or local tax benefits for the housing accommodation at issue.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7183 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to increasing the penal- ties for certain unlawful discriminatory practices based on the lawful source of income of the victim The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 297 of the executive law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows: 3 f. Any monetary damages or fines awarded or assessed pursuant to para- 4 graph c of this subdivision shall be doubled where a respondent is found 5 to have engaged in an unlawful discriminatory practice defined in subdi- 6 visions two-a or five of section two hundred ninety-six of this article 7 which is based on the lawful source of income of the victim of such 8 unlawful discriminatory practice, and such respondent receives federal, 9 state or local tax benefits for the housing accommodation at issue in 10 the complaint. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11520-01-5