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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

S 127: Grants legal services to certain small property owners

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

S 127 is a bill introduced in the New York Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Grants legal services to certain small property owners. Primary sponsor: Leroy Comrie (Democratic). It lists 4 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO CITIES 1.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Provides that any small property owner that owns twenty units or less shall be entitled to free legal services if such small property owner can prove a loss of at least twenty percent of rent payments in a calendar year; defines "small property owner" as any lessor in a residential real property transaction, and includes an owner of twenty units or less who lists residential real property for lease with an agent, whether or not a lease results, or who receives an offer to lease twenty units of residential real property or less.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3 · Democratic/Working Families 1 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Leroy ComriePrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate14
Nathalia FernándezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate34
Rachel MayCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate48
Tony PalumboCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate1
Jessica Scarcella-SpantonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate23

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO CITIES 1
  2. REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
  3. REFERRED TO CITIES 1

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source