---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to prohibiting legal fees to be charged by a lessor or agent thereof"
description: "Prohibits owners, lessors or agents thereof from assessing a lessee any fee for legal services in connection with any operation or rental of a residential unit unless the owner, lessor or agent has the legal authority to do so."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 2014"
citation: "New York S 2014 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["JACKSON"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-16"
last_action: "2021-12-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1e09313-3b75-4f5e-8230-a92ccf1865ce"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S2014"
source_hash: "b40ccfbce27742ad6934b5bd932ed4fa07aaca4207bb0b7a9ebe245b44f2d141"
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 S 2014 (2021-2022) — Relates to prohibiting legal fees to be charged by a lessor or agent thereof

Prohibits owners, lessors or agents thereof from assessing a lessee any fee for legal services in connection with any operation or rental of a residential unit unless the owner, lessor or agent has the legal authority to do so.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S2014** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2014&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **43–20** (pass) · upper
- Housing, Construction And Community Development Vote — **8–3** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **101–46** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- JACKSON — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-16** REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** 1ST REPORT CAL.917
- **2021-05-05** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2021-05-10** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2021-05-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-05-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-05-19** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-02** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5040
- **2021-06-02** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.174
- **2021-06-02** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-06-02** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2021-12-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-12-21** SIGNED CHAP.695 `executive-signature`
- **2021-12-21** APPROVAL MEMO.79

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1e09313-3b75-4f5e-8230-a92ccf1865ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).