Bill Text: NY S01592 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits any person who owns or manages more than four rental units within the state from serving as a public member on a rent guidelines board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S01592 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01592-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1592 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven- ty-four, in relation to qualifications of public members of rent guidelines boards The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 4 of section 4 of chapter 576 of 2 the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of 3 nineteen seventy-four, as amended by section 5 of part G of chapter 36 4 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 5 a. In each county wherein any city having a population of less than 6 one million or any town or village has determined the existence of an 7 emergency pursuant to section three of this act, there shall be created 8 a rent guidelines board to consist of nine members appointed by the 9 commissioner of housing and community renewal upon recommendation of the 10 county legislature, except that a rent guidelines board created subse- 11 quent to the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand 12 nineteen that amended this section shall consist of nine members 13 appointed by the commissioner of housing and community renewal upon 14 recommendations of the local legislative body of each city having a 15 population of less than one million or town or village which has deter- 16 mined the existence of an emergency pursuant to section three of this 17 act. Such recommendation shall be made within thirty days after the 18 first local declaration of an emergency in such county; two such members 19 shall be representative of tenants, two shall be representative of 20 owners of property, and five shall be public members each of whom shall 21 have had at least five years experience in either finance, economics or 22 housing. One public member shall be designated by the commissioner to 23 serve as chairman and shall hold no other public office. No member, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04483-01-3S. 1592 2 1 officer or employee of any municipal rent regulation agency or the state 2 division of housing and community renewal and no person who owns or 3 manages real estate covered by this law or who is an officer of any 4 owner or tenant organization shall serve on a rent guidelines board; 5 provided, further, however, no person who owns or manages more than four 6 rental units within the state of New York shall serve as a public member 7 on a rent guidelines board. One public member, one member represen- 8 tative of tenants and one member representative of owners shall serve 9 for a term ending two years from January first next succeeding the date 10 of their appointment; one public member, one member representative of 11 tenants and one member representative of owners shall serve for terms 12 ending three years from the January first next succeeding the date of 13 their appointment and three public members shall serve for terms ending 14 four years from January first next succeeding the dates of their 15 appointment. Thereafter, all members shall serve for terms of four 16 years each. Members shall continue in office until their successors 17 have been appointed and qualified. The commissioner shall fill any 18 vacancy which may occur by reason of death, resignation or otherwise in 19 a manner consistent with the original appointment. A member may be 20 removed by the commissioner for cause, but not without an opportunity to 21 be heard in person or by counsel, in his defense, upon not less than ten 22 days notice. Compensation for the members of the board shall be at the 23 rate of one hundred dollars per day, for no more than twenty days a 24 year, except that the chairman shall be compensated at the rate of one 25 hundred twenty-five dollars a day for no more than thirty days a year. 26 The board shall be provided staff assistance by the division of housing 27 and community renewal. The compensation of such members and the costs of 28 staff assistance shall be paid by the division of housing and community 29 renewal which shall be reimbursed in the manner prescribed in this 30 section [four of this act]. The local legislative body of each city 31 having a population of less than one million and each town and village 32 in which an emergency has been determined to exist as herein provided 33 shall be authorized to designate one person who shall be representative 34 of tenants and one person who shall be representative of owners of prop- 35 erty to serve at its pleasure and without compensation to advise and 36 assist the county rent guidelines board in matters affecting the adjust- 37 ment of rents for housing accommodations in such city, town or village 38 as the case may be. 39 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 40 have become a law and shall apply to public members currently serving on 41 a rent guidelines board.
