Senate Bill S3572

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Limits the amount of rent increase after the vacancy of a housing accommodation

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee


  • 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-S3572 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §26-511, NYC Ad Cd; amd §10, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S6084
2011-2012: S2341
2013-2014: S1024
2015-2016: S1178
2017-2018: S3107

2019-S3572 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the amount of rent increase after the vacancy of a housing accommodation.

2019-S3572 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S3572 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3572
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. SERRANO, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, SAVINO -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Housing, Construction and Community Development
 
 AN  ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the
   emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in  relation
   to limiting rent increase after vacancy of a housing accommodation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 5-a of subdivision c of  section  26-511  of  the
 administrative  code of the city of New York, as amended by section 16-a
 of part A of chapter 20 of the laws of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (5-a)  provides  that,  notwithstanding any provision of this chapter,
 the legal regulated rent for any vacancy lease entered  into  after  the
 effective  date  of  this  paragraph shall be as hereinafter provided in
 this paragraph. The previous  legal  regulated  rent  for  such  housing
 accommodation  shall  be  increased by the following: (i) if the vacancy
 lease is for a term of two years, [twenty] TEN percent of  the  previous
 legal  regulated rent; or (ii) if the vacancy lease is for a term of one
 year the increase shall be [twenty] TEN percent of  the  previous  legal
 regulated  rent  less  an amount equal to the difference between (a) the
 two year renewal lease guideline promulgated by the guidelines board  of
 the  city  of  New York applied to the previous legal regulated rent and
 (b) the one year renewal lease guideline promulgated by  the  guidelines
 board  of  the  city of New York applied to the previous legal regulated
 rent. However, where the amount charged and paid  by  the  prior  tenant
 pursuant  to  paragraph  fourteen of this subdivision, was less than the
 legal regulated rent, such increase to the legal  regulated  rent  shall
 not  exceed:  five  percent  of the previous legal regulated rent if the
 last vacancy lease commenced less than two years ago; ten percent of the
 previous legal regulated rent if the last vacancy lease  commenced  less
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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