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                                   7729
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. LASHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Aging
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law and the administrative code of
   the  city  of  New York, in relation to establishing a maximum rent of
   one-third of household income for the senior  citizens  rent  increase
   exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent increase exemption (DRIE)
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "senior citizens rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent
 increase exemption (DRIE) rollback act".
   §  2.  Subdivision  4 of section 467-b of the real property tax law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
   C. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE  OR
 RESOLUTION ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, A TAX ABATEMENT CERTIFICATE
 SETTING FORTH AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT BY WHICH THE MAXIMUM RENT OR
 LEGAL  REGULATED  RENT OF THE SUBSEQUENT DWELLING UNIT EXCEEDS ONE-THIRD
 OF THE COMBINED INCOME OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD FOR  THE  TAXABLE
 PERIOD  SHALL  BE ISSUED BY SAID AGENCY TO EACH HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD WHO IS
 FOUND TO BE ELIGIBLE UNDER THIS SECTION  AND  UPON  APPLICATION  TO  THE
 APPROPRIATE  RENT  CONTROL  AGENCY  OR  ADMINISTRATIVE  AGENCY ON A FORM
 PRESCRIBED BY SAID AGENCY ON OR BEFORE THE LAST DATE PRESCRIBED  BY  LAW
 FOR  THE  PAYMENT  OF THE TAXES OR THE FIRST INSTALLMENT THEREFOR OF ANY
 MUNICIPAL CORPORATION WHICH HAS GRANTED AN ABATEMENT OF TAXES. COPIES OF
 SUCH CERTIFICATE SHALL BE ISSUED TO  THE  OWNER  OF  THE  REAL  PROPERTY
 CONTAINING  THE  DWELLING  UNIT  OF THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND TO THE
 COLLECTING OFFICER CHARGED WITH THE DUTY OF COLLECTING THE TAXES OR EACH
 MUNICIPAL CORPORATION WHICH HAS GRANTED THE ABATEMENT OF  TAXES  AUTHOR-
 IZED BY THIS SECTION.
   §  3.  Subdivision (a) of section 26-605 of the administrative code of
 the city of New York, as amended by local law number 98 of the  city  of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 A. 7729                             2
 
 New  York  for  the year 1985 and paragraph 3 as added by chapter 553 of
 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Subject  to the provisions of this chapter AND IF PROVIDED BY THE
 LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION,  an
 eligible  head  of  the  household  may obtain a rent increase exemption
 order/tax abatement certificate entitling [him or her] SUCH HEAD OF  THE
 HOUSEHOLD  to  an  exemption from increases in the maximum rent EQUAL TO
 THE AMOUNT BY WHICH THE MAXIMUM RENT OR  LEGAL  REGULATED  RENT  OF  THE
 SUBSEQUENT DWELLING UNIT EXCEEDS ONE-THIRD OF THE COMBINED INCOME OF ALL
 MEMBERS  OF  THE  HOUSEHOLD  otherwise  payable  in one of the following
 amounts:
   (1) where the eligible head of the household does not receive a month-
 ly allowance for shelter pursuant to the social services law, the amount
 by which increases in the  maximum  rent  subsequent  to  such  persons'
 eligibility  date  have resulted in the maximum rent exceeding one-third
 of the combined income of all members of the household for  the  taxable
 period,  except  that  in no event shall a rent increase exemption order
 tax abatement certificate become effective prior to January first, nine-
 teen hundred seventy-six; or
   (2) where the eligible head of the household receives a monthly allow-
 ance for shelter pursuant to the social  services  law,  an  amount  not
 exceeding  that  portion  of  any increase in maximum rent subsequent to
 such person's eligibility date which  is  not  covered  by  the  maximum
 allowance  for shelter which such person is entitled to receive pursuant
 to the social services law.
   [(3) notwithstanding paragraph one  of  this  subdivision,  where  the
 eligible  head  of  the  household is a person who qualifies as a person
 with a disability pursuant to section 26-617 of this chapter and who has
 been granted a rent increase exemption order that is  in  effect  as  of
 January  first,  two  thousand fifteen or takes effect on or before July
 first, two thousand fifteen, the amount  specified  in  such  order,  as
 adjusted  by  any other provision of this chapter, regardless of whether
 increases in the maximum rent subsequent to  such  persons'  eligibility
 date  have  resulted  in  the  maximum  rent  exceeding one-third of the
 combined income of all members of the household for the taxable period.]
   § 4. Item (a) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph 3 of subdivision  b  of
 section  26-509  of  the administrative code of the city of New York, as
 amended by local law number 98 of the city of  New  York  for  the  year
 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  in  the  case  of  a head of the household who does not receive a
 monthly allowance for shelter pursuant to the social services law,  that
 the  landlord  may not collect from the tenant to whom it is issued rent
 at a rate in excess of [either] one-third of  the  aggregate  disposable
 income[,  or  the  rent  in effect immediately preceding the eligibility
 date, whichever is greater]; or
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ments  to  section 26-509 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administrative
 code of the city of New York made by section  four  of  this  act  shall
 expire  on  the  same  date as such law expires and shall not affect the
 expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.