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legislation/us/states/ny/2019-2020/a-2554.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Prohibits commercial leases from including a waiver of the right to a declaratory judgment action"
+description: "Prohibits commercial leases from including a waiver of the right to a declaratory judgment action and states that the inclusion of such a waiver in a commercial lease shall be null and void as against public policy."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "A 2554"
+citation: "New York A 2554 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["OTIS"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-12-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24c34d0c-7ab8-471f-91d7-7f4a5825aac3"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A2554"
+source_hash: "fdad70f0dcdef476f7c539de337b1f367343c02d0a574eacec2ffa842e6128d9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York A 2554 (2019-2020) — Prohibits commercial leases from including a waiver of the right to a declaratory judgment action
+
+Prohibits commercial leases from including a waiver of the right to a declaratory judgment action and states that the inclusion of such a waiver in a commercial lease shall be null and void as against public policy.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A2554** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A2554&term=2019&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **101–45** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **40–22** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- OTIS — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-23** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-07** REPORTED
+- **2019-05-09** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.284
+- **2019-06-04** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2019-06-04** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2019-06-04** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-13** SUBSTITUTED FOR S5614
+- **2019-06-13** 3RD READING CAL.1346
+- **2019-06-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2019-06-13** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2019-12-10** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-12-20** SIGNED CHAP.689 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24c34d0c-7ab8-471f-91d7-7f4a5825aac3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+