Assembly Bill A1954

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Expands definition of eligible senior citizen and disabled person with respect to condominium and cooperative conversion

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A1954 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§352-e, 352-eee & 352-eeee, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5684
2011-2012: A4450
2013-2014: A5594
2015-2016: A3737
2017-2018: A8162
2019-2020: A3411
2021-2022: A7017

2023-A1954 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands definition of eligible senior citizen and disabled person to include any member of the tenant's household lawfully occupying the premises as his or her residence who is 62 years of age with respect to condominium and cooperative conversion to provide protection to disabled and senior citizen non-purchasing residents of buildings that undergo cooperative or condominium conversions under an eviction plan even where such residents are not tenants of record in the buildings.

2023-A1954 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1954
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to senior citizens
   and disabled persons
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivi-
 sion 2-a of section 352-e of the general business law, as added by chap-
 ter 771 of the laws of 1983, are amended to read as follows:
   (iii) "Eligible  senior  citizens".  Non-purchasing  tenants  who  are
 sixty-two  years  of  age  or older on the date the attorney general has
 accepted the plan for filing, and the spouses of  any  such  tenants  on
 such  date,  [and who have elected] OR ANY MEMBER OF THE TENANT'S HOUSE-
 HOLD, LAWFULLY OCCUPYING THE PREMISES AS HIS OR  HER  RESIDENCE  WHO  IS
 SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ON SUCH DATE, PROVIDED, IN THE CASE OF A
 TENANT'S  HOUSEHOLD  MEMBER,  THAT  HE  OR  SHE HAS LIVED IN THE HOUSING
 ACCOMMODATION AS HIS OR HER RESIDENCE FOR A PERIOD OF NO LESS  THAN  ONE
 YEAR  PRECEDING  SUCH  DATE. THE TENANT MUST ELECT, within sixty days of
 the date the attorney general has accepted the plan for filing, on forms
 promulgated by the attorney general and presented to such tenants by the
 offeror, to become non-purchasing tenants under the provisions  of  this
 subdivision;  provided  that  such  election shall not preclude any such
 tenant from subsequently purchasing the dwelling unit on the terms  then
 offered to tenants in occupancy.
   (iv)  "Eligible  disabled persons". Non-purchasing tenants who have an
 impairment which results from anatomical, physiological or psychological
 conditions, other than addiction to alcohol, gambling, or any controlled
 substance, which are demonstrable by medically acceptable  clinical  and
 laboratory diagnostic techniques, and which are expected to be permanent
 and  which  [prevent the tenant from engaging in any substantial gainful
 employment] SUBSTANTIALLY LIMIT ONE OR MORE MAJOR LIFE ACTIVITIES on the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03387-01-3
              

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