Senate Bill S6916A

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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  • 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-S6916 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7918
Law Section:
Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 21 of 1962

2021-S6916 - 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-S6916 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6916 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6916
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAVANAGH -- (at request of the NYC H.P.D.) -- 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  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. Such survey shall
 be submitted to such legislative body not less than thirty nor more than
 sixty days prior to the date of any such determination.  NOTWITHSTANDING
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

2021-S6916A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7918
Law Section:
Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 21 of 1962

2021-S6916A (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-S6916A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6916A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6916--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAVANAGH -- (at request of the NYC H.P.D.) -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
   Committee  on  Housing,  Construction  and  Community  Development  --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted to said committee

 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,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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