Bill Text: NY A10186 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to exempting certain rent regulated tenancies from an estate in bankruptcy proceedings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-08-25 - referred to judiciary [A10186 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A10186-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10186
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    August 25, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rosenthal)
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
       AN ACT to amend the debtor and creditor law, in relation  to  bankruptcy
         exemptions for rent regulated tenancies
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 282 of the debtor and creditor law  is  amended  by
    2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4.  BANKRUPTCY  EXEMPTION  FOR  RENT REGULATED TENANCIES. THE DEBTOR'S
    4  INTEREST IN A RESIDENTIAL RENT REGULATED TENANCY, HELD AND  OCCUPIED  BY
    5  THE  DEBTOR FOR A RENT REGULATED UNIT, REGULATED UNDER THE RENT STABILI-
    6  ZATION  LAW  OF  NINETEEN  HUNDRED  SIXTY-NINE,  THE  EMERGENCY   TENANT
    7  PROTECTION  ACT  OF  NINETEEN  SEVENTY-FOUR,  THE EMERGENCY HOUSING RENT
    8  CONTROL LAW, THE LIMITED-PROFIT HOUSING COMPANIES ACT OR THE  CITY  RENT
    9  AND REHABILITATION LAW.
   10    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
   11  satisfaction of judgments on or after such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15738-01-4
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