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Jan 05, 2022 | referred to judiciary |
Jan 14, 2021 | referred to judiciary |
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Harvey Epstein
Al Taylor
Deborah Glick
Andrew Hevesi
A2220 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Judiciary
- Law Section:
- Real Property
- Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
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A10224
A2220 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Suspends all rent payments for certain residential tenants and small business commercial tenants if such tenant has lost employment or was forced to close their place of business and certain mortgage payments for landlords of such tenants in the state for ninety days following the effective date of this act in response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
A2220 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2220 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NIOU, EPSTEIN, TAYLOR, GLICK, HEVESI, FRONTUS, L. ROSENTHAL, BARNWELL, DE LA ROSA, CARROLL, PERRY, CRUZ, SEAWRIGHT, FALL, RICHARDSON, REYES, GOTTFRIED, SIMON, JOYNER, OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to suspend rent payments for certain residential tenants and small business commercial tenants and to suspend certain mortgage payments for ninety days in response to the outbreak of coronavirus THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, any residential tenant or small business commercial tenant in the state that has lost income or has been forced to close their place of business as a result of government ordered restrictions in response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), shall have all rent payments suspended for ninety days following the effective date of this act. Such residential tenant or small business commercial tenant shall not and shall never be required to pay any rent waived during such time period. Every residential tenant or small business commercial tenant whose lease expires during this time period shall be subject to an automatic renewal lease at the current rent charged. Late fees shall not be collectable for rent accrued during this time period. (b) (i) Any person or entity who faces a financial hardship as a result of being deprived rent payments for property pursuant to this section shall receive forgiveness on any mortgage payments for such property for ninety days, in an amount determined by the following frac- tion multiplied by such mortgage payment, up to the total dollar amount of lost rent: (A) The numerator shall be the total amount of rent payments suspended for his or her tenants over the ninety day period laid out in this section; and EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.