Bill Text: NY S00732 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Suspends evictions of rent regulated tenants when a tenant is forced to spend time away from their residence due to COVID-19 and cannot meet occupancy requirements of one hundred eighty-three days or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00732 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00732-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           732

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community Development

        AN ACT in relation to suspending evictions for tenants who are forced to
          spend  time  away from their rent regulated residences and cannot meet
          certain occupancy requirements

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, where a tenant has
     2  signed  a  lease  and  is  occupying a rent regulated residence and such
     3  lease requires such tenant to occupy such residence as his or her prima-
     4  ry residence for a period of greater than one-half of a  calendar  year,
     5  or  one  hundred  eighty-three days, and due to COVID-19 such tenant has
     6  not been able to occupy such residence as his or her  primary  residence
     7  pursuant  to  the requirements of such lease, beginning from the date of
     8  the state of emergency declared by executive order  202  that  began  on
     9  March  7,  2020  until  such state of emergency is lifted any days spent
    10  away from such residence due to COVID-19 shall not  be  counted  towards
    11  any rent regulation occupancy time requirement, and shall not be grounds
    12  for  eviction  pursuant  to  chapter 3 of title 26 of the administrative
    13  code of the city of New York.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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