Bill Text: NY A00289 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no tenant of housing accommodations which are subject to rent control shall be subject to a fuel adjustment or pass-along increase in rent; provides that any such increase to such tenant shall be null and void.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A00289 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00289-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           289
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. L. ROSENTHAL, COLTON, MOSLEY, JAFFEE -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, GOTTFRIED,  PERRY  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Housing
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to eliminating fuel pass-along charges for occupants of  rent
          controlled housing accommodations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 26-407.1 to read as follows:
     3    § 26-407.1 Fuel pass-along to tenants under rent  control  prohibited.
     4  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, regulation, charter or
     5  administrative code, tenants of housing accommodations which are subject
     6  to  rent  control  under  this  chapter  shall  not be subject to a fuel
     7  adjustment or pass-along increase in rent and any such increase to  such
     8  tenant shall be null and void.
     9    §  2.    This  act  shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day
    10  after it shall have become a law; provided that the addition of  section
    11  26-407.1  to the city rent and rehabilitation law made by section one of
    12  this act shall remain in full force and  effect  only  as  long  as  the
    13  public  emergency  requiring  the  regulation and control of residential
    14  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1
    15  of the local emergency housing rent control act.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01570-01-9