Senate Bill S4378

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to certain housing accommodations by tenants over sixty-two years of age

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development 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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2017-S4378 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5064
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §§26-403 & 26-511, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5840, A8121
2019-2020: S1921, A7032, A7702
2021-2022: S1040
2023-2024: S3388

2017-S4378 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to rent regulated and rent stabilized housing accommodations by tenants over sixty-two years of age.

2017-S4378 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4378 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4378
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, RIVERA, SERRANO -- 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 certain housing accommodations by tenants  over  sixty-two
   years of age
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 6 of subdivision a of section 5 of section  4  of
 chapter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974, constituting the emergency tenant
 protection act of nineteen seventy-four, as amended by  chapter  403  of
 the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
   (6)  housing  accommodations owned or operated by a hospital, convent,
 monastery, asylum, public institution, or college or school dormitory or
 any institution  operated  exclusively  for  charitable  or  educational
 purposes  on a non-profit basis other than those accommodations occupied
 by a tenant on the date such housing accommodation is  acquired  by  any
 such  institution,  [or] which are occupied subsequently by a tenant who
 is not affiliated with such institution at the time of his initial occu-
 pancy, OR WHERE THE HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS ARE OCCUPIED BY A NON-AFFILI-
 ATED TENANT WHO IS SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER;
   § 2. Paragraph 10 of subdivision a of section 5 of section 4 of  chap-
 ter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974,  constituting  the  emergency  tenant
 protection act of nineteen seventy-four, is amended to read as follows:
   (10) housing accommodations  in  buildings  operated  exclusively  for
 charitable  purposes on a non-profit basis, UNLESS SUCH HOUSING ACCOMMO-
 DATIONS ARE OCCUPIED BY A TENANT WHO IS SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER;
   § 3. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph  2  of  subdivision  e  of  section
 26-403  of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to
 read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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