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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Assembly Bill A2159
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
JOYNER
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Felix Ortiz
Walter T. Mosley
Rebecca Seawright
Charles Barron
multi-Sponsors
Catherine Nolan
2019-A2159 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S5317
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Housing
- Law Section:
- New York City Administrative Code
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§26-405 & 26-511, NYC Ad Cd; amd §6, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §4, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2017-2018:
A8755
2021-2022: S3328
2023-2024: A10006, S5659
2019-A2159 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to tenant responses to applications for a major capital improvement rent increase; allows tenants to respond within one hundred twenty days from the date of mailing of a notice of a proceeding; requires the state division of housing and community renewal to provide any responding tenant with the reasons for the division's approval or denial of such application.
2019-A2159 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2159 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, ORTIZ, MOSLEY, SEAWRIGHT, BARRON, GOTT- FRIED, PICHARDO, TAYLOR, NIOU, ARROYO, SIMON, COOK, BLAKE, EPSTEIN, HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer- gency housing rent control law, in relation to tenant responses to applications for a major capital improvement rent increase THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision g of section 26-405 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subparagraph (g-1) to read as follows: (G-1) WHERE AN APPLICATION FOR A MAJOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT RENT INCREASE HAS BEEN FILED, A TENANT SHALL HAVE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS FROM THE DATE OF MAILING OF A NOTICE OF A PROCEEDING IN WHICH TO ANSWER OR REPLY. THE CITY RENT AGENCY SHALL PROVIDE ANY RESPONDING TENANT WITH THE REASONS FOR THE CITY RENT AGENCY'S APPROVAL OR DENIAL OF SUCH APPLI- CATION; OR § 2. Paragraph 6 of subdivision c of section 26-511 of the administra- tive code of the city of New York, as amended by section 29 of part A of chapter 20 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: (6) provides criteria whereby the commissioner may act upon applica- tions by owners for increases in excess of the level of fair rent increase established under this law provided, however, that such crite- ria shall provide (a) as to hardship applications, for a finding that the level of fair rent increase is not sufficient to enable the owner to maintain approximately the same average annual net income (which shall be computed without regard to debt service, financing costs or manage- ment fees) for the three year period ending on or within six months of the date of an application pursuant to such criteria as compared with annual net income, which prevailed on the average over the period nine- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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