Bill Text: NY S00433 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that all declarations of housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020 shall remain in full force and effect until the date that is two years after the expiration of the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order 202 of 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S00433 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00433-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           433

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Housing,
          Construction and Community Development

        AN ACT providing for the continuation of certain declarations of housing
          emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020

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

     1    Section 1. a. For the purposes of this act, "declarations  of  housing
     2  emergency" means:
     3    (i)  all  determinations by the local legislative body of a city, town
     4  or village of the existence of a public emergency pursuant to section  3
     5  of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four;
     6    (ii)  the  public  emergency  requiring  the regulation and control of
     7  residential rents and evictions as provided in subdivision 3 of  section
     8  1 of the local emergency housing rent control act;
     9    (iii)  the  serious  public  emergencies declared pursuant to sections
    10  26-401, 26-501 and 26-502 of the administrative code of the city of  New
    11  York; and
    12    (iv)  the  serious  public emergency declared pursuant to section 1 of
    13  the emergency housing rent control law.
    14    b. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the emergency tenant
    15  protection  act  of  nineteen  seventy-four,  sections  26-401,  26-414,
    16  26-501, 26-502, and 26-520 of the administrative code of the city of New
    17  York,  and  any  other applicable provisions of law, all declarations of
    18  housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020
    19  shall remain in full force and effect until the date that is  two  years
    20  after  the  expiration  of the state disaster emergency, as such term is
    21  defined in section 20 of the executive law, declared pursuant to  Execu-
    22  tive  Order  202  of  2020,  as  amended, and as further extended by any
    23  subsequent or future executive order, regardless of whether the  vacancy

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  rate  for the municipality in which the housing accommodation is located
     2  or for the class of such housing accommodation within such  municipality
     3  is in excess of five percent.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.