Bill Text: NY S06906 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06906 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06906-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6906--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to information to
          be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accom-
          modations

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3  of  section
     2  467-b  of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the laws
     3  of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (2) a landlord of any housing accommodation subject to  provisions  of
     5  the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act, the emergency tenant
     6  protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursu-
     7  ant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabili-
     8  zation law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall, at least  [once]  twice
     9  annually,  [including]  provide  with  [a]  all  new [lease and all] and
    10  renewal leases, and any written lease modifications,  delivered  to  the
    11  occupant  of  such  accommodation,  [provide] the informational material
    12  describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior  citizen  rent
    13  increase  exemption  program  and the disability rent increase exemption
    14  program, as provided by the entity administering the program pursuant to
    15  subparagraph one of this paragraph;  provided  however,  that  any  such
    16  information provided as part of a new or renewal lease, or written lease
    17  modification, shall count toward the requirement for two annual notices.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05668-09-4