Bill Text: NY S08175 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the rent guidelines board from increasing rents on one year leases during a state disaster emergency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-13 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S08175 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S08175-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8175 IN SENATE April 13, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven- ty-four and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the rent guidelines board from increasing rents on certain leases during a state disaster emergency The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 4 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, 2 constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy- 3 four, is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows: 4 b-1. A rent guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease 5 with a one year term during any state disaster emergency declared pursu- 6 ant to article two-B of the executive law. 7 § 2. Section 26-510 of the administrative code of the city of New York 8 is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows: 9 b-1. A rent guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease 10 with a one year term during any state disaster emergency declared pursu- 11 ant to article two-B of the executive law. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 13 the amendments to section 26-510 of the rent stabilization law of nine- 14 teen hundred sixty-nine made by section two of this act shall expire on 15 the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of 16 such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16036-01-0