Bill Text: NY A10265 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the rent guidelines board from increasing rents on one year leases during a state disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-08 - referred to housing [A10265 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10265-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10265

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 8, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. EPSTEIN, BARNWELL, CRUZ, SEAWRIGHT -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
          ty-four  and  the  administrative  code  of  the  city of New York, in
          relation to prohibiting the  rent  guidelines  board  from  increasing
          rents on certain leases during a state disaster emergency

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

     1    Section 1. Section 4 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of  1974,
     2  constituting  the  emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
     3  four, is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:
     4    b-1. A rent guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease
     5  with a one year term during any state disaster emergency declared pursu-
     6  ant to article two-B of the executive law.
     7    § 2. Section 26-510 of the administrative code of the city of New York
     8  is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:
     9    b-1. A rent guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease
    10  with a one year term during any state disaster emergency declared pursu-
    11  ant to article two-B of the executive law.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    13  the  amendments to section 26-510 of the rent stabilization law of nine-
    14  teen hundred sixty-nine made by section two of this act shall expire  on
    15  the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of
    16  such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16036-01-0