Assembly Bill A10265

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting the rent guidelines board from increasing rents on certain leases during a state disaster emergency

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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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2019-A10265 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8175
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Laws Affected:
Amd §4, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §26-510, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A3148, S6776

2019-A10265 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to prohibiting the rent guidelines board from increasing rents on one year leases during a state disaster emergency.

2019-A10265 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10265
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. EPSTEIN, BARNWELL, CRUZ, SEAWRIGHT -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 4 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of  1974,
 constituting  the  emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
 four, is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:
   B-1. A RENT GUIDELINES BOARD SHALL NOT INCREASE THE RENT FOR ANY LEASE
 WITH A ONE YEAR TERM DURING ANY STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY DECLARED PURSU-
 ANT TO ARTICLE TWO-B OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 2. Section 26-510 of the administrative code of the city of New York
 is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:
   B-1. A RENT GUIDELINES BOARD SHALL NOT INCREASE THE RENT FOR ANY LEASE
 WITH A ONE YEAR TERM DURING ANY STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY DECLARED PURSU-
 ANT TO ARTICLE TWO-B OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments to section 26-510 of the rent stabilization law of nine-
 teen hundred sixty-nine made by section two of this act shall expire  on
 the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of
 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.
                                                            LBD16036-01-0

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