Bill Text: NY S06551 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the date when the local legislative body in New York city may determine the continuation of an emergency; and relates to the continuation of the New York city rent stabilization law of 1969.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06551 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06551-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6551

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend  the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act,  in
          relation  to the date when the local legislative body of a city having
          a population of one million or more may determine the continuation  of
          the emergency, and to amend the administrative code of the city of New
          York, in relation to continuation of the New York city rent stabiliza-
          tion law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1 of chapter 21  of  the  laws  of
     2  1962,  constituting  the  local  emergency  housing rent control act, as
     3  amended by chapter 657 of the laws  of  1967,  is  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    3.  Local determination as to continuation of emergency. The continua-
     6  tion, after May  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  of  the
     7  public  emergency  requiring  the  regulation and control of residential
     8  rents and evictions within cities having a population of one million  or
     9  more  shall  be  a matter for local determination within each such city.
    10  Any such determination shall be made by the local  legislative  body  of
    11  such  city on or before April first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven and at
    12  least once in every third year thereafter following a survey  which  the
    13  city  shall  cause  to  be  made of the supply of housing accommodations
    14  within such city, the condition of such accommodations and the need  for
    15  continuing the regulation and control of residential rents and evictions
    16  within  such  city,  provided, however, that when the date by which such
    17  determination shall be made falls in a calendar year immediately follow-
    18  ing  a  calendar  year  during  which  a  federal  decennial  census  is
    19  conducted,  such  date shall be postponed by one year. Such survey shall
    20  be submitted to such legislative body not less than thirty nor more than
    21  sixty days prior to the date of any such determination.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13403-01-9
        S. 6551                             2

     1    § 2. Section 26-520 of the administrative code  of  the  city  of  New
     2  York,  as amended by local law number 85 of the city of New York for the
     3  year of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 26-520 Expiration date. This chapter shall expire on April 1, [2021]
     5  2022  unless rent control shall sooner terminate as provided in subdivi-
     6  sion three of section one of the local emergency  housing  rent  control
     7  law.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.