Bill Text: NY S08310 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Suspends evictions of rent regulated tenants when a tenant is forced to spend time away from their residence due to COVID-19 and cannot meet occupancy requirements of one hundred eighty-three days or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-18 - PRINT NUMBER 8310A [S08310 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08310-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8310--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 11, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community  Development  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT in relation to suspending evictions for tenants who are forced to
          spend time away from their rent regulated residences and  cannot  meet
          certain occupancy requirements

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, where a tenant has
     2  signed a lease and is occupying a  rent  regulated  residence  and  such
     3  lease requires such tenant to occupy such residence as his or her prima-
     4  ry  residence  for a period of greater than one-half of a calendar year,
     5  or one hundred eighty-three days, and due to COVID-19  such  tenant  has
     6  not  been  able to occupy such residence as his or her primary residence
     7  pursuant to the requirements of such lease, beginning from the  date  of
     8  the  state  of  emergency  declared by executive order 202 that began on
     9  March 7, 2020 until such state of emergency is  lifted  any  days  spent
    10  away  from  such  residence due to COVID-19 shall not be counted towards
    11  any rent regulation occupancy time requirement, and shall not be grounds
    12  for eviction pursuant to chapter 3 of title  26  of  the  administrative
    13  code of the city of New York.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16337-02-0