---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to rent regulation and tenant protection"
description: "Establishes the legal regulated rent for the combination of two or more vacant apartments; relates to exemptions from rent stabilization on the basis of substantial rehabilitation; relates to clearly defining the scope of the fraud exception to the pre-HSTPA four-year rule for calculating rents and relates to the effectiveness thereof."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 8011"
citation: "New York S 8011 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Kavanagh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fac028b-4f82-4d93-878b-bd2d10d35ddd"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8011"
source_hash: "7fb47f3f43acf2f5997d014bfc7cdda8262a5a1520f32e3c0cda7d74f197071a"
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 8011 (2023-2024) — Relates to rent regulation and tenant protection

Establishes the legal regulated rent for the combination of two or more vacant apartments; relates to exemptions from rent stabilization on the basis of substantial rehabilitation; relates to clearly defining the scope of the fraud exception to the pre-HSTPA four-year rule for calculating rents and relates to the effectiveness thereof.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8011** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8011&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **84–63** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **37–25** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **15–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Kavanagh — primary (person)
- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.20
- **2024-01-09** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-01-09** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-01-09** REFERRED TO HOUSING `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8506
- **2024-01-29** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.276
- **2024-02-13** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2024-02-13** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-03-01** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** SIGNED CHAP.95 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fac028b-4f82-4d93-878b-bd2d10d35ddd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).