| Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Jun 17, 2020 | signed chap.125 |
| Jun 05, 2020 | delivered to governor |
| May 28, 2020 | returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.58 substituted for a10522 |
| May 28, 2020 | substituted by s8419 ruling of chair on point of order ordered to third reading rules cal.58 rules report cal.58 reported reported referred to rules reference changed to ways and means |
| May 25, 2020 | referred to housing |
assembly Bill A10522
Signed By Governor2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CYMBROWITZ
Archive: Last Bill Status Via S8419 - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor Calendar
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed by Governor
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Co-Sponsors
Patricia Fahy
David Weprin
Felix Ortiz
Walter T. Mosley
A10522 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S8419
- Law Section:
- Housing
A10522 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10522
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 25, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cymbrowitz)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT in relation to enacting the "emergency rent relief act of 2020"
to establish an interim residential rent relief program; and to
provide for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
the "emergency rent relief act of 2020".
§ 2. 1. For the purposes of this act:
a. "Coverage period" shall mean April 1, 2020 through July 31, 2020.
b. "Eligible household" shall mean a household (i) with an income
below 80 percent of the area median income, as adjusted for family size,
both prior to March 7, 2020 and at the time of application; (ii) with a
rent burden both prior to March 7, 2020 and at the time of application;
and (iii) has lost income during the coverage period.
c. "Income" shall mean income from all sources of each member of the
household, including all wages, tips, overtime, salary, recurring gifts,
returns on investments, welfare assistance, social security payments,
child support payments, unemployment benefits, any benefit, payment or
cash grant whose purpose is to assist with rental payments, any payments
whose purpose is to replace lost income, and any other government bene-
fit or cash grant. The term "income" shall not include: employment
income from children under eighteen years of age, employment income from
children eighteen years of age or older who are full-time students,
foster care payments, sporadic gifts, groceries provided by persons not
living in the household, supplemental nutrition assistance program bene-
fits, earned income disallowance, or the earned income tax credit.
d. "Fair market rent" shall mean the fair market rent for each rental
area as promulgated annually by the United States department of housing
and urban development's office of policy development and research pursu-
ant to 42 USC 1437f.
e. "Rent burden" shall mean the amount of a contract monthly rent
which is more than 30 percent of the household income.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets