Assembly Bill A7702

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to certain housing accommodations by tenants over sixty-two years of age or a tenant with a disability

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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-A7702 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1921
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
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: A8121, S5840
2017-2018: A5064, S4378
2021-2022: S1040
2023-2024: S3388

2019-A7702 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to rent regulated and rent stabilized housing accommodations by tenants over sixty-two years of age or a tenant with a disability.

2019-A7702 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   7702
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  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 certain housing accommodations by tenants  over  sixty-two
   years of age or tenants with a disability

   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 OR BY A NON-AFFILIAT-
 ED TENANT WHO SUFFERS  FROM  A  DISABILITY  AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION
 TWENTY-ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW;
   §  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
 OR BY A NON-AFFILIATED TENANT WHO SUFFERS FROM A DISABILITY  AS  DEFINED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02056-01-9
              

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