Bill Text: NY A09201 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to eligibility requirements for rent increase exemptions for persons with disabilities; includes children who qualify as a person with a disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-09 - referred to aging [A09201 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09201-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9201

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to eligibility requirements for rent increase exemptions for
          persons with disabilities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision d of section 26-601 of the administrative code
     2  of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 39 of  the  city
     3  of New York for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    d.  "Eligible  head of the household" means (1) a person or his or her
     5  spouse who is sixty-two years of age or older, or (2) a person,  his  or
     6  her spouse or his or her child who qualifies as a person with a disabil-
     7  ity  pursuant  to  section 26-617 of this chapter and is entitled to the
     8  possession or to the use and occupancy of  a  dwelling  unit,  provided,
     9  however, that with respect to a dwelling which was subject to a mortgage
    10  insured  or  initially  insured  by  the  federal government pursuant to
    11  section two hundred thirteen of the national housing  act,  as  amended,
    12  "eligible  head  of the household" shall be limited to that person [or],
    13  his or her spouse or his or her child  if  such  child  qualifies  as  a
    14  person with a disability pursuant to section 26-617 of this chapter, who
    15  was  entitled  to  possession  or the use and occupancy of such dwelling
    16  unit at the time of termination of such mortgage, and whose income  when
    17  combined  with  the  income  of all other members of the household whose
    18  head of household is sixty-two years of age or  older  does  not  exceed
    19  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  beginning July first, two thousand five,
    20  twenty-six thousand dollars beginning  July  first,  two  thousand  six,
    21  twenty-seven  thousand dollars beginning July first, two thousand seven,
    22  twenty-eight thousand dollars beginning July first, two thousand  eight,
    23  twenty-nine  thousand  dollars  beginning July first, two thousand nine,
    24  and fifty thousand dollars beginning July first, two  thousand  fourteen
    25  for  the taxable period, or whose income for the current income tax year
    26  when combined with the income of all members of the  household  residing
    27  in  the  housing  accommodation  whose head of the household is a person

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08454-01-1

        A. 9201                             2

     1  with a disability does not exceed fifty thousand dollars beginning  July
     2  first, two thousand fourteen.
     3    § 2. Subdivision d of section 26-601 of the administrative code of the
     4  city  of  New York, as separately amended by local law numbers 75 and 76
     5  of the city of New York for  the  year  2005,  is  amended  to  read  as
     6  follows:
     7    d.  "Eligible  head of the household" means (1) a person or his or her
     8  spouse who is sixty-two years of age or older, or (2) a person,  his  or
     9  her spouse or his or her child who qualifies as a person with a disabil-
    10  ity  pursuant  to  section 26-617 of this chapter and is entitled to the
    11  possession or to the use and occupancy of  a  dwelling  unit,  provided,
    12  however, that with respect to a dwelling which was subject to a mortgage
    13  insured  or  initially  insured  by  the  federal government pursuant to
    14  section two hundred thirteen of the national housing  act,  as  amended,
    15  "eligible  head  of the household" shall be limited to that person [or],
    16  his or her spouse or his or her child  if  such  child  qualifies  as  a
    17  person with a disability pursuant to section 26-617 of this chapter, who
    18  was  entitled  to  possession  or the use and occupancy of such dwelling
    19  unit at the time of termination of such mortgage, and whose income  when
    20  combined  with  the  income  of all other members of the household whose
    21  head of household is sixty-two years of age or  older  does  not  exceed
    22  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  beginning July first, two thousand five,
    23  twenty-six thousand dollars beginning  July  first,  two  thousand  six,
    24  twenty-seven  thousand dollars beginning July first, two thousand seven,
    25  twenty-eight thousand dollars beginning July first, two thousand  eight,
    26  and  twenty-nine  thousand  dollars  beginning  July first, two thousand
    27  nine, for the taxable period, or whose income for the current income tax
    28  year when combined with the income  of  all  members  of  the  household
    29  residing  in  the housing accommodation whose head of the household is a
    30  person with a disability does not exceed the maximum income above  which
    31  such head of the household would not be eligible to receive cash supple-
    32  mental security income benefits under federal law during such tax year.
    33    §  3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
    34  ments to subdivision d of section 26-601 of the administrative  code  of
    35  the city of New York made by section one of this act shall be subject to
    36  the  expiration  and reversion of such subdivision pursuant to section 5
    37  of local law number 19 of the city of New York for  the  year  2014,  as
    38  amended  when  upon  such date the provisions of section two of this act
    39  shall take effect.
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