All Roll Calls
Yes: 147 • No: 60
New YorkA 18202025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Requires the modification of restrictive covenants prior to the sale of real property
Sponsored By: Phil Steck (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
JUDICIARY
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Housing associations must remove discriminatory restrictions
The act takes effect 180 days after becoming law. Condominium, cooperative, and homeowners association boards must remove or amend unlawful discriminatory restrictions in their recorded documents. They have one year after the act's effective date to do this, without needing property-owner approval. Restrictions lawful under state and federal law are not covered.
Owners can correct discriminatory property records
Beginning 180 days after enactment, ownership-interest holders can record corrections when they believe their property has an unlawful discriminatory restriction. County recorders must provide public forms; filings must include the full original document with unlawful words crossed out, signed under penalty of law. Corrections must be indexed like the original and identify its recording date and book/page or instrument number. Once recorded, the correction contains the property's effective restrictions, subject to restrictions recorded after the original document or after the correction. This process removes unlawful language without removing lawful restrictions.
Owners bear liability for unauthorized corrections
Beginning 180 days after the act becomes law, owners are solely responsible for liability from recording corrections containing unauthorized language. This applies when an ownership-interest holder causes the correction document to be recorded. The county recorder is not liable for recording that document.
Sellers must remove discriminatory property restrictions
Beginning 180 days after the act becomes law, sellers must correct unlawful discriminatory restrictions in property documents being recorded. Covered grounds are race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, familial status, marital status, disability, national origin, source of income, and ancestry. Sellers must obtain a restrictive covenant modification document from the county recorder and give buyers or title insurance applicants a copy by closing. Sellers must record the correction, but they do not have to pay the recording filing fee. Restrictions lawful under state and federal law are not covered.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Phil Steck
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Angelo Santabarbara
Democratic • House
Dana Levenberg
Democratic • House
Jonathan Jacobson
Democratic • House
Pamela J. Hunter
Democratic • House
Sarah Clark
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/11/2025
FLOOR Vote
Yes: 47 • No: 12
House vote • 4/2/2025
Assembly floor vote
Yes: 100 • No: 48
Actions Timeline
APPROVAL MEMO.9
12/5/2025HouseSIGNED CHAP.578
12/5/2025HouseDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
12/1/2025HouseRETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
6/11/2025SenatePASSED SENATE
6/11/2025Senate3RD READING CAL.538
6/11/2025SenateSUBSTITUTED FOR S3178A
6/11/2025SenateREFERRED TO JUDICIARY
4/2/2025SenateDELIVERED TO SENATE
4/2/2025HousePASSED ASSEMBLY
4/2/2025HouseAMENDED ON THIRD READING 1820A
3/24/2025HouseADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.62
3/20/2025HouseREPORTED
3/18/2025HouseREFERRED TO JUDICIARY
1/14/2025House
Bill Text
Amendment A
3/24/2025
Original
1/14/2025
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