Assembly Bill A7918

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the date in calendar year 2022 when the local legislative body of a city having a population of one million or more may determine the continuation of the emergency

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S6916 - Signed by Governor

  • 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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2021-A7918 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6916
Law Section:
Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 21 of 1962

2021-A7918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the date in calendar year 2022 when the local legislative body of a city having a population of one million or more may determine the continuation of the emergency; provides that to ensure sufficient time to complete the survey in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the date by which such determination shall be made by the local legislative body in calendar year 2022 shall be postponed until July 1, 2022.

2021-A7918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7918
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act,  in
   relation  to the date in calendar year 2022 when the local legislative
   body of a city having a population of one million or more  may  deter-
   mine  the  continuation of the emergency; and providing for the repeal
   of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 1 of chapter 21 of the laws of
 1962, constituting the local emergency  housing  rent  control  act,  as
 amended  by  section  1  of part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is
 amended to read as follows:
   3. Local determination as to continuation of emergency. The  continua-
 tion,  after  May  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven, of the
 public emergency requiring the regulation  and  control  of  residential
 rents  and evictions within cities having a population of one million or
 more shall be a matter for local determination within  each  such  city.
 Any  such  determination  shall be made by the local legislative body of
 such city on or before April first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven and  at
 least  once  in every third year thereafter following a survey which the
 city shall cause to be made of  the  supply  of  housing  accommodations
 within  such city, the condition of such accommodations and the need for
 continuing the regulation and control of residential rents and evictions
 within such city, provided, however, that when the date  by  which  such
 determination shall be made falls in a calendar year immediately follow-
 ing  a  calendar  year  during  which  a  federal  decennial  census  is
 conducted, such date shall be  postponed  by  one  year,  AND  PROVIDED,
 FURTHER,  THAT  TO ENSURE SUFFICIENT TIME TO COMPLETE SUCH SURVEY IN THE
 CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THE DATE BY WHICH  SUCH  DETERMINATION
 SHALL  BE MADE BY THE LOCAL LEGISLATIVE BODY IN CALENDAR YEAR 2022 SHALL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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