Bill Text: NY S08401 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8401--A IN SENATE May 21, 2020 ___________ 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