Bill Text: NY S08175 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8175 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-13 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S08175 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08175-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8175

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 13, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 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.
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