Bill Text: NY S06244 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to extending the senior citizen and persons with disabilities rent increase exemption program to dwelling units subject to orders of a rent guideline board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-05 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06244 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06244-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6244 I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 6, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to eligibility for the senior citizen and persons with disabilities rent increase exemption program THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 467-b of the real 2 property tax law, as amended by chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 a. "Dwelling unit" means that part of a dwelling in which a head of 5 the household resides and which is subject to [either] the emergency 6 housing rent control law or to the rent and rehabilitation law of the 7 city of New York enacted pursuant to the local emergency housing rent 8 control law, [or] to the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen 9 seventy-four, OR TO AN AGREEMENT PROVIDING FOR RENT INCREASES EQUAL TO 10 OR LESS THAN THE AMOUNT ORDERED BY A RENT GUIDELINE BOARD OF A PARTIC- 11 IPATING LOCALITY; HOWEVER, WHERE SUCH AN AGREEMENT PROVIDES FOR RENT 12 INCREASES FOR CERTAIN YEARS THAT ARE BASED ON BUT GREATER THAN THE 13 AMOUNT ORDERED BY THE RENT GUIDELINE BOARD OF A PARTICIPATING LOCALITY, 14 SUCH LOCALITY SHALL HAVE THE AUTHORITY AND DISCRETION, WITH RESPECT TO 15 THOSE CERTAIN YEARS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE RENT INCREASES UP TO OR ABOVE 16 THE AMOUNT ORDERED BY THE RENT GUIDELINE BOARD OF A PARTICIPATING LOCAL- 17 ITY; 18 S 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 467-b of the real proper- 19 ty tax law, as added by chapter 689 of the laws of 1972, is amended to 20 read as follows: 21 a. "Dwelling unit" means that part of a dwelling in which a head of 22 the household resides and which is subject to [either] THE emergency 23 housing rent control law or to THE rent and rehabilitation law of the 24 city of New York enacted pursuant to the local law enacted pursuant to 25 the local emergency housing rent control law, OR TO AN AGREEMENT PROVID- 26 ING FOR RENT INCREASES EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN THE AMOUNT ORDERED BY A EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13129-01-5 S. 6244 2 1 RENT GUIDELINE BOARD OF A PARTICIPATING LOCALITY; HOWEVER, WHERE SUCH AN 2 AGREEMENT PROVIDES FOR RENT INCREASES FOR CERTAIN YEARS THAT ARE BASED 3 ON BUT GREATER THAN THE AMOUNT ORDERED BY THE RENT GUIDELINE BOARD OF A 4 PARTICIPATING LOCALITY, SUCH LOCALITY SHALL HAVE THE AUTHORITY AND 5 DISCRETION, WITH RESPECT TO THOSE CERTAIN YEARS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE RENT 6 INCREASES UP TO OR ABOVE THE AMOUNT ORDERED BY THE RENT GUIDELINE BOARD 7 OF A PARTICIPATING LOCALITY; 8 S 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 9 have become a law; provided that the amendments to paragraph a of subdi- 10 vision 1 of section 467-b of the real property tax law made by section 11 one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such 12 section pursuant to section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as 13 amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act 14 shall take effect.