Senate Bill S9154A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Ends the major capital improvement program; creates the guaranteed habitability protections program; creates a guaranteed habitability protections tax credit; ends rent increases for major capital improvements

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  • 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-S9154 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§210-B & 606, Tax L; amd §§4 & 5, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L; amd §§6 & 10, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §§26-403.2, 26-405, 26-407, 26-511 & 26-512, NYC Ad Cd

2017-S9154 - Summary

Eliminates the department of homes and community renewal's major capital improvement program; creates the guaranteed habitability protections program within the department of homes and community renewal; creates a guaranteed habitability protections tax credit; eliminates rent increases to pay for major capital improvements.

2017-S9154 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S9154 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9154
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              August 24, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT eliminating the department of homes and community renewal's major
   capital improvement  program;  creating  the  guaranteed  habitability
   protections  program  within  the  department  of  homes and community
   renewal; to amend the tax law, in relation to  creating  a  guaranteed
   habitability  protections tax credit; to amend chapter 274 of the laws
   of 1946, constituting the emergency  housing  rent  control  law,  the
   emergency  tenant  protection  act  of  nineteen  seventy-four and the
   administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to  eliminat-
   ing rent increases to pay for major capital improvements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. (a) The department of homes and community renewal shall end
 the major capital improvement program. All increases  to  rents  allowed
 during  the  life  of  the  major  capital  improvement program shall be
 repealed upon petition from a tenant, all  applications  pending  review
 for  the  major capital improvement program shall be denied, and no rent
 increases shall be allowed under the major capital improvement program.
   (b) The department of homes and community renewal, upon repealing  any
 increase  in  rent  under  the  major capital improvement program, shall
 require that the rent is reduced by an  amount  equal  to  that  of  the
 increase  allowed  under  the  major capital improvement program in that
 instance for all current tenants affected by such  increase.  This  rent
 shall be considered the legal rent and shall no longer by a preferential
 rent.
   (c)  The  department of homes and community renewal shall require that
 any increase in a tenant's security deposit due to an increase  in  rent
 under  the  major capital improvement program be repaid to the tenant by
 the landlord within thirty days of such repeal.
   (d) The new legal rent shall be the legal rent beginning on  the  date
 rent  is  required  to  be  paid  next succeeding the repeal of any rent
 increase under the major capital improvement program.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

co-Sponsors

2017-S9154A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§210-B & 606, Tax L; amd §§4 & 5, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L; amd §§6 & 10, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §§26-403.2, 26-405, 26-407, 26-511 & 26-512, NYC Ad Cd

2017-S9154A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the department of homes and community renewal's major capital improvement program; creates the guaranteed habitability protections program within the department of homes and community renewal; creates a guaranteed habitability protections tax credit; eliminates rent increases to pay for major capital improvements.

2017-S9154A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S9154A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9154--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              August 24, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. GIANARIS, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --  commit-
   tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
   mitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT eliminating the department of homes and community renewal's major
   capital improvement  program;  creating  the  guaranteed  habitability
   protections  program  within  the  department  of  homes and community
   renewal; to amend the tax law, in relation to  creating  a  guaranteed
   habitability  protections tax credit; to amend chapter 274 of the laws
   of 1946, constituting the emergency  housing  rent  control  law,  the
   emergency  tenant  protection  act  of  nineteen  seventy-four and the
   administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to  eliminat-
   ing rent increases to pay for major capital improvements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. (a) The department of homes and community renewal shall end
 the major capital improvement program. All increases  to  rents  allowed
 during  the  life  of  the  major  capital  improvement program shall be
 repealed upon petition from a tenant, all  applications  pending  review
 for  the  major capital improvement program shall be denied, and no rent
 increases shall be allowed under the major capital improvement program.
   (b) The department of homes and community renewal, upon repealing  any
 increase  in  rent  under  the  major capital improvement program, shall
 require that the rent is reduced by an  amount  equal  to  that  of  the
 increase  allowed  under  the  major capital improvement program in that
 instance for all current tenants affected  by  such  increase  provided,
 however,  that  no  rent  shall  be  reduced to an amount lower than the
 amount such rent was ten years or more in the past. This rent  shall  be
 considered the legal rent and shall no longer by a preferential rent.
   (c)  The  department of homes and community renewal shall require that
 any increase in a tenant's security deposit due to an increase  in  rent
 under  the  major capital improvement program be repaid to the tenant by
 the landlord within thirty days of such repeal.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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