Bill Text: NY S08401 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Automatically extends enrollment of individuals in the rent increase exemption program for low income elderly persons and persons with disabilities pursuant to section 467-b or 467-c of the real property tax law, the senior citizen homeowners' exemption program pursuant to section 467 of the real property tax law or the disabled homeowners' exemption program pursuant to section 459-c of the real property tax law until January 1, 2021 in response to novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-01 - PRINT NUMBER 8401A [S08401 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08401-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8401--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 21, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sens. LIU, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local  Government  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to automatically extend the enrollment of individuals in  certain
          programs in response to novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any individ-
     2  ual enrolled in the rent  increase  exemption  program  for  low  income
     3  elderly  persons and persons with disabilities pursuant to section 467-b
     4  or 467-c of the real property tax law, the  senior  citizen  homeowners'
     5  exemption  program  pursuant to section 467 of the real property tax law
     6  or the disabled homeowners' exemption program pursuant to section  459-c
     7  of  the  real  property tax law as of the effective date of this act and
     8  who does not reenroll in such program due to  concerns  related  to  the
     9  state  disaster  emergency  declared  pursuant  to  executive  order two
    10  hundred two of two thousand twenty, as amended, shall remain enrolled in
    11  such program until January 1, 2021 or until their current enrollment  is
    12  set to expire, whichever is later.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16154-03-0