Bill Text: NY S03920 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides retroactivity to the original date of eligibility for the senior citizens rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent increase exemption (DRIE).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-08 - referred to aging [S03920 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03920-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3920

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to providing for  retroactive  benefit  calculation  for  the
          senior  citizens  rent increase exemption and disability rent increase
          exemption

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  26-605 of the administrative code of the city of
     2  New York is amended by  adding  a  new  subdivision  (c-1)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (c-1)  For  any  eligible head of household who submits an application
     5  for a rent increase exemption order pursuant to subdivision (a)  or  (b)
     6  of  this section, the date of such application shall be deemed to be (i)
     7  the date of the applicant's initial  eligibility  for  a  rent  increase
     8  exemption  order, if the actual date of submission of the application is
     9  two years or less after such date of initial eligibility,  or  (ii)  the
    10  date  which  is  two years prior to the actual date of the submission of
    11  the application, if such application is submitted more  than  two  years
    12  after  the applicant's   date of initial eligibility for a rent increase
    13  exemption order, and the calculation of such  rent  increase  exemption,
    14  prospectively,  shall  be  based  upon  the  applicant's initial date of
    15  eligibility and not upon the date of such application, provided,  howev-
    16  er,  that  the  provisions  of  this subdivision shall only apply to the
    17  calculation of benefits and no prior rental payments attributable to any
    18  rent increase prior to the date  of  application  shall  be  subject  to
    19  recoupment.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00155-01-1