NY State Senate Bill 2019-S4825

Senate Bill S4825

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides for a continuation of senior citizen rent increase exemption benefits after a period of ineligibility

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2019-S4825 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1471
Current Committee:: Senate Aging
Law Section:: New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:: Amd §26-605, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: A10768
2013-2014: S5495, A708
2015-2016: S529, A563
2017-2018: S3627, A3520
2021-2022: S5280, A3737
2023-2024: S6383

2019-S4825 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for a continuation of senior citizen rent increase exemption benefits after a period of ineligibility due to a head of household's temporary increase in income.

2019-S4825 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4825

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the administrative code of the city of
New York, in relation to continuation of senior citizen rent increase
exemption benefits after a period of ineligibility due to a head of
household's temporary increase in income

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this legislation is to guarantee that recipients of the
SCRIE benefit not be subject to hindsight rent increases due to a period
of ineligibility.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

This bill will amend section 26-605 of the administrative code of the
city of New York by adding a new subdivision (e).

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As it exists today, the SCRIE program contains a loophole that signif-
icantly hurts those senior citizens it is intended to help. Very
frequently, a senior may see his or her income experience an anomalous
spike, because of the need to take an additional distribution from an
IRA or a pension to cover medical expenses, for example, or other
onetime increases in income. This income spike will disqualify the
applicant from the benefit. When the senior's income returns to normal,
and the beneficiary re-applies, his or her rent gets frozen not at the
old level, but at the current, higher foil legal rent, which is greater
than the previously frozen rent. This sudden income spike can effec-
tively push tenants out of the apartments SCRIE was intended to keep
them in.

This legislation will prevent the disqualification of seniors from the
program because of one-time spikes in income within two years.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017-18: S3627 - REFERRED TO AGING
2015-16: S.529/A.563 - Referred to Housing Construction and Community
Development
2013-14: S.5495/A.10763 - Referred to Housing Construction and Community
Development

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Unknown

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to relevant
applications for the senior citizen rent increase exemption benefits
filed on or after such date.

2019-S4825 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4825
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 26, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to  continuation  of  senior citizen rent increase exemption
   benefits after a period of ineligibility due to a head of  household's
   temporary increase in income
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 26-605 of the administrative code of  the  city  of
 New York is amended by adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
   (E)  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, A HEAD OF A HOUSEHOLD
 TO WHOM A RENT INCREASE EXEMPTION ORDER/TAX  ABATEMENT  CERTIFICATE  HAS
 BEEN  ISSUED  UNDER  THIS CHAPTER, CHAPTER THREE OR CHAPTER FOUR OF THIS
 TITLE WHO  HAS  BECOME  INELIGIBLE  FOR  SUCH  RENT  INCREASE  EXEMPTION
 ORDER/TAX  ABATEMENT  CERTIFICATE AS A RESULT OF A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN
 INCOME FOR A PERIOD OF TIME THAT DOES NOT EXCEED TWO  YEARS,  MAY,  UPON
 RESUMPTION   OF   RECEIPT   OF   AN   INCOME  THAT  QUALIFIES  FOR  SUCH
 ORDER/CERTIFICATE UNDER THIS CHAPTER, CHAPTER THREE OR CHAPTER  FOUR  OF
 THIS  TITLE,  APPLY  TO THE SUPERVISING AGENCY, SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND
 CONDITIONS IMPOSED  BY  SUCH  RELEVANT  CHAPTER,  FOR  A  RENT  INCREASE
 EXEMPTION  ORDER/TAX ABATEMENT CERTIFICATE RELATING TO THE SAME DWELLING
 UNIT TO WHICH THE ORIGINAL RENT INCREASE EXEMPTION  ORDER/TAX  ABATEMENT
 CERTIFICATE  APPLIED,  AND SUCH ORDER/CERTIFICATE SHALL PROVIDE THAT THE
 HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM PAYING THAT  PORTION  OF  THE
 MAXIMUM  RENT FOR THE DWELLING UNIT WHICH EXCEEDS THE LAST RENT THAT THE
 HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD WAS REQUIRED TO PAY IN THE DWELLING UNIT PRIOR  TO
 HIS  OR HER INCREASE IN INCOME WHICH CAUSED THE TEMPORARY INELIGIBILITY,
 PLUS ANY NON-EXEMPT INCREASES  IN  SUCH  MAXIMUM  RENT  WHICH  MAY  HAVE
 OCCURRED DURING THE TEMPORARY PERIOD OF INELIGIBILITY.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to rele-
 vant applications for the senior citizen rent increase  exemption  bene-
 fits filed on or after such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02601-01-9

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