Bill Text: NY S08855 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that all declarations of housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020 shall remain in full force and effect until the date that is two years after the expiration of the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order 202 of 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-29 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08855 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08855-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8855

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 29, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT providing for the continuation of certain declarations of housing
          emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020

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

     1    Section  1.  a. For the purposes of this act, "declarations of housing
     2  emergency" means:
     3    (i) all determinations by the local legislative body of a  city,  town
     4  or  village of the existence of a public emergency pursuant to section 3
     5  of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four;
     6    (ii) the public emergency requiring  the  regulation  and  control  of
     7  residential  rents and evictions as provided in subdivision 3 of section
     8  1 of the local emergency housing rent control act;
     9    (iii) the serious public emergencies  declared  pursuant  to  sections
    10  26-401,  26-501 and 26-502 of the administrative code of the city of New
    11  York; and
    12    (iv) the serious public emergency declared pursuant to  section  1  of
    13  the emergency housing rent control law.
    14    b. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the emergency tenant
    15  protection  act  of  nineteen  seventy-four,  sections  26-401,  26-414,
    16  26-501, 26-502, and 26-520 of the administrative code of the city of New
    17  York, and any other applicable provisions of law,  all  declarations  of
    18  housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020
    19  shall  remain  in full force and effect until the date that is two years
    20  after the expiration of the state disaster emergency, as  such  term  is
    21  defined  in section 20 of the executive law, declared pursuant to Execu-
    22  tive Order 202 of 2020, as amended,  and  as  further  extended  by  any
    23  subsequent  or future executive order, regardless of whether the vacancy
    24  rate for the municipality in which the housing accommodation is  located
    25  or  for the class of such housing accommodation within such municipality
    26  is in excess of five percent.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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