Assembly Bill A4764

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Removes provisions prohibiting N.Y. city from strengthening rent regulation laws to provide more comprehensive coverage than state laws

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A4764 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2467
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 21 of 1962
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1688, S749
2011-2012: A2993, S443
2013-2014: A8393, S1492
2015-2016: A1759, S2831
2017-2018: A5557, S3179
2019-2020: A4122, S1926
2021-2022: A3678, S1037

2023-A4764 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes provisions that prohibit cities of one million or more from strengthening rent regulation laws to provide more comprehensive coverage than state laws.

2023-A4764 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4764
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act,  in
   relation to rent regulation laws
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1 of chapter 21  of  the  laws  of
 1962,  constituting  the  local  emergency  housing rent control act, as
 amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 2003 and the closing  paragraph  as
 amended  by  chapter  422  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5. Authority for local rent control legislation. Each  city  having  a
 population  of one million or more, acting through its local legislative
 body, may adopt and amend local laws or ordinances  in  respect  of  the
 establishment  or  designation  of  a  city housing rent agency. When it
 deems such action to be desirable or necessitated by local conditions in
 order to carry out the purposes of this section, such  city,  except  as
 hereinafter  provided, acting through its local legislative body and not
 otherwise, may adopt and amend local laws or ordinances  in  respect  of
 the  regulation  and  control  of  residential  rents, including but not
 limited to provision for the establishment  and  adjustment  of  maximum
 rents,  the  classification of housing accommodations, the regulation of
 evictions, and the enforcement of such local  laws  or  ordinances.  The
 validity  of  any  such local laws or ordinances, and the rules or regu-
 lations promulgated in accordance therewith, shall not  be  affected  by
 and need not be consistent with the state emergency housing rent control
 law  or  with rules and regulations of the state division of housing and
 community renewal.
   Notwithstanding any local law  or  ordinance,  housing  accommodations
 which became vacant on or after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one
 or  which  hereafter become vacant shall be subject to the provisions of

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05504-01-3
              

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