Bill Text: NY S06551 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the date when the local legislative body in New York city may determine the continuation of an emergency; and relates to the continuation of the New York city rent stabilization law of 1969.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06551 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06551-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6551 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the local emergency housing rent control act, in relation to the date when the local legislative body of a city having a population of one million or more may determine the continuation of the emergency, and to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to continuation of the New York city rent stabiliza- tion law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1 of chapter 21 of the laws of 2 1962, constituting the local emergency housing rent control act, as 3 amended by chapter 657 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 3. Local determination as to continuation of emergency. The continua- 6 tion, after May thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, of the 7 public emergency requiring the regulation and control of residential 8 rents and evictions within cities having a population of one million or 9 more shall be a matter for local determination within each such city. 10 Any such determination shall be made by the local legislative body of 11 such city on or before April first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven and at 12 least once in every third year thereafter following a survey which the 13 city shall cause to be made of the supply of housing accommodations 14 within such city, the condition of such accommodations and the need for 15 continuing the regulation and control of residential rents and evictions 16 within such city, provided, however, that when the date by which such 17 determination shall be made falls in a calendar year immediately follow- 18 ing a calendar year during which a federal decennial census is 19 conducted, such date shall be postponed by one year. Such survey shall 20 be submitted to such legislative body not less than thirty nor more than 21 sixty days prior to the date of any such determination. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13403-01-9S. 6551 2 1 § 2. Section 26-520 of the administrative code of the city of New 2 York, as amended by local law number 85 of the city of New York for the 3 year of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 4 § 26-520 Expiration date. This chapter shall expire on April 1, [2021] 5 2022 unless rent control shall sooner terminate as provided in subdivi- 6 sion three of section one of the local emergency housing rent control 7 law. 8 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.