A 1625 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Establishes the homeownership protection program

Summary

Establishes the homeowner protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeowner protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of mitigating threats to homeownership; provides that the department of law shall provide grants to eligible not-for-profit housing counseling organizations and legal services organizations to provide services under the program.

Issues: ✓ Housing

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 10, 2025 Last action Jun 3, 2026

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What changed between versions

A1625 → A1625A · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill was amended to expand the scope of the Homeowner Protection Program (HOPP) by explicitly adding estate planning, anti-theft measures, and scam prevention to its list of purposes. The amendment also clarifies that the program must be funded through annual legislative appropriations. Additionally, the bill was renumbered and sponsors were updated to reflect committee discharge and further amendments.

Scope change

The bill's scope was expanded to include specific new purposes such as estate planning, preventing real property theft, and stopping scams targeting homeowners, in addition to existing goals like foreclosure prevention.

SCOPE

Added explicit purposes for the program including estate planning, preventing theft of real property, and stopping scams targeted at homeowners.

FISCAL

Clarified that the program shall be funded by annual appropriation, removing ambiguity about the funding mechanism.

TECHNICAL

Updated bill metadata including the bill number, session year, list of sponsoring legislators, and committee status to reflect procedural changes.

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Committee

Amendments

Jun 3, 2026

Committee

REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

lower

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

lower

May 13, 2025

Committee

REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

lower

May 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 1625A

lower

May 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING

lower

Jan 10, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO HOUSING

lower

1 primary · 22 co-sponsors