New York legislation · 2025-2026 General Assembly
New York A4877: Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency
Status: In committee, May 31, 2026
Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency; authorizes a city with a population of one million or more to declare an emergency as to any class of housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations in such class within such municipality is not in excess of five percent and a declaration of emergency may be made as to all housing accommodations if the vacancy rate for the housing accommodations within such municipality is not in excess of five percent; authorizes other cities, towns and villages to declare a housing emergency after considering publicly available data and holding public hearings.
What the bill says
An act to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency.
From the amended text, May 31, 2026:
AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "rent emergency stabilization for tenants act". § 2. Section 3 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventyfour, subdivision a as amended by chapter 69 of the laws of 1980, subdivisions d, f and g as added by chapter 698 of the laws of 2023 and EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05109-10-6 A. 4877--D 2 subdivision e as amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as end of emergency. a. The existence of public emergency requiring the regulation of residential rents for all or any class or classes of housing accommodations, including any plot or parcel of land which had been rented prior to May first, nineteen hundred fifty, for the purpose of permitting the tenant thereof to construct or place [his] SUCH TENANT'S own dwelling thereon and …
Sponsors
- Sarahana Shrestha (D, 103) · primary sponsor
- Linda Rosenthal (D, 67)
- Maryjane Shimsky (D, 92)
- Anna Kelles (D, 125)
- Gabriella Romero (D, 109)
- Karines Reyes (D, 87)
- Emily Gallagher (D, 50)
- Dana Levenberg (D, 95)
- Noah Burroughs (D, 18)
- Forrest, Phara Souffrant (I, 57)
- Phillip Steck (D, 110)
- Claire Valdez (D, 37)
Latest actions
- : AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO RULES 4877D
- : REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
- : REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
- : PRINT NUMBER 4877C
- : AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING
- : PRINT NUMBER 4877B
- : AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING
- : REFERRED TO HOUSING
- : PRINT NUMBER 4877A
- : AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING
Votes
- Assembly Housing Committee: Favorable refer to committee Codes (May 20, 2026): 16 yea, 9 nay, passed
- Assembly Codes Committee: Favorable refer to committee Rules (May 20, 2026): 14 yea, 4 nay, passed
Subjects: Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Common questions
- What is A4877?
- A4877 is a bill in the New York Legislature (2025-2026 General Assembly): Relates to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency.
- What does A4877 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation to enacting the rent emergency stabilization for tenants act on local determinations of a housing emergency.
- What is the status of A4877?
- In committee as of May 31, 2026. Latest action: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO RULES 4877D (May 31, 2026).
- Who sponsored A4877?
- Sarahana Shrestha (D, 103), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for A4877?
- On the New York Legislature website: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A4877
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