Bill Text: NY A00113 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts a debtor's interest in his or her rent-stabilized lease from bankruptcy proceedings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-10 - substituted by s290 [A00113 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00113-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 113 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the debtor and creditor law, in relation to exempting a debtor's interest in his or her rent-stabilized lease from bankruptcy proceedings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 282 of the debtor and creditor 2 law, as amended by chapter 206 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 2. Bankruptcy exemption for right to receive benefits. The debtor's 5 right to receive or the debtor's interest in: (a) a social security 6 benefit, unemployment compensation or a local public assistance benefit; 7 (b) a veterans' benefit; (c) a disability, illness, or unemployment 8 benefit; (d) alimony, support, or separate maintenance, to the extent 9 reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and any dependent of 10 the debtor; [and] (e) the debtor's interest in his or her rent-stabi- 11 lized lease; and (f) all payments under a stock bonus, pension, profit 12 sharing, or similar plan or contract on account of illness, disability, 13 death, age, or length of service unless (i) such plan or contract, 14 except those qualified under section 401, 408 or 408A of the United 15 States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, was established by the 16 debtor or under the auspices of an insider that employed the debtor at 17 the time the debtor's rights under such plan or contract arose, (ii) 18 such plan is on account of age or length of service, and (iii) such plan 19 or contract does not qualify under section four hundred one (a), four 20 hundred three (a), four hundred three (b), four hundred eight, four 21 hundred eight A, four hundred nine or four hundred fifty-seven of the 22 Internal Revenue Code of nineteen hundred eighty-six, as amended. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02332-01-1