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                                   2474
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Aging
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to  providing  for  retroactive  benefit calculation for the
   senior citizens rent increase exemption and disability  rent  increase
   exemption

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 26-605 of the administrative code of  the  city  of
 New  York  is  amended  by  adding  a  new  subdivision (c-1) to read as
 follows:
   (C-1) FOR ANY ELIGIBLE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD WHO  SUBMITS  AN  APPLICATION
 FOR  A  RENT INCREASE EXEMPTION ORDER PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION (A) OR (B)
 OF THIS SECTION, THE DATE OF SUCH APPLICATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE  (I)
 THE  DATE  OF  THE  APPLICANT'S  INITIAL ELIGIBILITY FOR A RENT INCREASE
 EXEMPTION ORDER, IF THE ACTUAL DATE OF SUBMISSION OF THE APPLICATION  IS
 TWO  YEARS  OR  LESS AFTER SUCH DATE OF INITIAL ELIGIBILITY, OR (II) THE
 DATE WHICH IS TWO YEARS PRIOR TO THE ACTUAL DATE OF  THE  SUBMISSION  OF
 THE  APPLICATION,  IF  SUCH APPLICATION IS SUBMITTED MORE THAN TWO YEARS
 AFTER THE APPLICANT'S  DATE OF INITIAL ELIGIBILITY FOR A  RENT  INCREASE
 EXEMPTION  ORDER,  AND  THE CALCULATION OF SUCH RENT INCREASE EXEMPTION,
 PROSPECTIVELY, SHALL BE BASED  UPON  THE  APPLICANT'S  INITIAL  DATE  OF
 ELIGIBILITY  AND NOT UPON THE DATE OF SUCH APPLICATION, PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER, THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION  SHALL  ONLY  APPLY  TO  THE
 CALCULATION OF BENEFITS AND NO PRIOR RENTAL PAYMENTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO ANY
 RENT  INCREASE  PRIOR  TO  THE  DATE  OF APPLICATION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO
 RECOUPMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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