assembly Bill A10522

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Enacts the "emergency rent relief act of 2020" to establish an interim residential rent relief program

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    • Passed Assembly
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Actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
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

Votes

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May 26, 2020 - Finance committee Vote

S8419
17
1
committee
17
Aye
1
Nay
5
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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May 26, 2020 - Housing, Construction and Community Development committee Vote

S8419
8
0
committee
8
Aye
0
Nay
3
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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Committee Vote: May 26, 2020

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May 24, 2020 - Rules committee Vote

S8419
16
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committee
16
Aye
0
Nay
3
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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A10522 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8419
Law Section:
Housing

A10522 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "emergency rent relief act of 2020" to establish an interim residential rent relief program.

A10522 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10522

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 25, 2020
                               ___________

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