Bill Text: NY S02826 | 2015-2016 | 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 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S02826 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02826-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2826
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 29, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sens. KRUEGER, HOYLMAN, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing,
         Construction and Community Development
       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    S  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    S 2.   This act shall take effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
   10  succeeding  the  date on which it shall have become a law; provided that
   11  the addition of section 26-407.1 to the city rent and rehabilitation law
   12  made by section one of this act shall remain in full  force  and  effect
   13  only  as  long  as  the  public  emergency  requiring the regulation and
   14  control of residential rents and evictions  continues,  as  provided  in
   15  subdivision  3  of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control
   16  act.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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