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Brian Kavanagh

Sponsor · State Senator, District 27 · Democratic

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Senate bill · S912 (2025-26)

Relates to the creation of a statewide residential rental registry

Latest action Feb 4, 2026

Summary

Relates to the creation of a statewide residential rental registry providing information relating to rental units including the number and types of code violations issued by the appropriate enforcement agency, and the number of findings of harassment currently on record with the code enforcement agencies.

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Where it stands

Out of committee and scheduled for a vote by the full chamber.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Up for a vote
  4. Passed one chamber
  5. Passed
  6. Enacted

New York State Senate

Amends the Executive Law.

Committee

Housing, Construction And Community Development · New York State Senate

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

This bill would mandate the creation of a statewide residential rental registry

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Recorded votes

  • Vote: Committee vote · Housing, Construction And Community Development

    Senate Housing, Construction And Community DevelopmentFeb 3, 2026Result: passed

    (7) (3) (0) (0)

  • Vote: Committee vote · Housing, Construction And Community Development

    Senate Housing, Construction And Community DevelopmentJan 27, 2025Result: passed

    (8) (3) (0) (0)

Cosponsors

Gustavo Rivera, James Skoufis and 4 more on Agora

  • Democratic6
See the full list on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

The sponsor's argument

Why Brian Kavanagh says this is needed

On August 5, 2019, the Committees on Investigations and Government Oper- ations and Housing, Construction, and Community Development released a report on code enforcement in New York State. The investigation concluded the lack of prioritization of code enforcement in munici- palities across the State is significantly contributing to the culture of poor compliance that ultimately endangers the lives of residents and first responders. The report found that several municipalities had difficulty serving notices of violation and orders to comply because the owner or landlord did not reside within the community or the LLC owner had no registered agent. The report recommended the creation of a state- wide residential rental registry to help address this problem.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

  1. Feb 4, 2026

    Reported out of committee

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

    NY Senate

  2. Jan 7, 2026

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

    NY Senate

  3. Jan 27, 2025

    Reported out of committee

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

    NY Senate

  4. Jan 8, 2025

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

    NY Senate

About this record

Summary

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Cosponsors

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Source

From NY Open Legislation, the NY Senate and Assembly, and official rosters. This record was last updated Oct 30, 2026. About our data

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