NY State Senate Bill 2019-S6551

Senate Bill S6551

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the date when the local legislative body in New York city may determine the continuation of an emergency; and relates to the continuation of the New York city rent stabilization law of 1969

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jul 23, 2020	committed to rules
Jan 23, 2020	advanced to third reading
Jan 22, 2020	2nd report cal.
Jan 21, 2020	1st report cal.217
Jan 08, 2020	referred to housing, construction and community development returned to senate died in assembly
Jun 19, 2019	referred to housing delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1742
Jun 16, 2019	referred to rules

Votes

- Jun 19, 2019 - Floor Vote
  S6551
  
  62
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 19, 2019
      
      aye (62)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Antonacci
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jacobs
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
  Jun 19, 2019 - Rules Committee Vote
  S6551
  
  17
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 19, 2019
      
      aye (17)
      
      Benjamin
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Parker
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Griffo
      
      Robach
  Jan 21, 2020 - Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee Vote
  S6551
  
  8
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  3
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee Vote: Jan 21, 2020
      
      aye (8)
      
      Boyle
      
      Jackson
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Krueger
      
      Mayer
      
      Myrie
      
      Rivera
      
      Salazar
      
      aye wr (3)
      
      Amedore
      
      Helming
      
      Little

2019-S6551 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8406
Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act
Laws Affected:: Amd §1, Chap 21 of 1962; amd §26-520, NYC Ad Cd

2019-S6551 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2019-S6551 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S6551

SPONSOR: KAVANAGH
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the local emergency housing rent
control act, in relation to the date when the local legislative body of
a city having a population of one million or more may determine the
continuation of the emergency, and to amend the administrative code of
the city of New York, in relation to continuation of the New York city
rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of this bill amends the local emergency housing rent control
act by providing that the date by which a local legislative body must
make the determination that the supply of housing constitutes a public
housing emergency may be postponed by one year when such date falls in a
calendar year immediately following a calendar year during which a
federal decennial census is conducted.

Section two of this bill extends the expiration date of chapter four of
title 26 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, which will
allow the continuation of rent stabilization laws. The bill would take

effect immediately.

 
REASONS FOR SUPPORT:

Rent stabilization and control are critical protections for the City of
New York, which has had a continued housing crisis since at least the
1960s. Under existing law, cities with a population of one million or
more must determine an ongoing housing emergency at least once every
three years following a survey that determines such emergency. The city
of New York has historically made this determination using the Housing
and Vacancy Survey (HVS), which is conducted every three years by the
United States Census Bureau.

The most recent HVS was conducted in 2017, and the determination of a
housing emergency was made in 2018. Because the United States Census
Bureau will be working on the 2020 decennial census in 2020, it will not
be able to complete the HVS that year. The HVS will instead be conducted
in 2021, which means that the initial findings from the survey will not
be ready before 2022. In light of this anticipated delay, this bill
would postpone determination of a housing emergency by one year if the
timing of the United States decennial census postpones the conducting of
the HVS.

2019-S6551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6551
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act,  in
   relation  to the date when the local legislative body of a city having
   a population of one million or more may determine the continuation  of
   the emergency, and to amend the administrative code of the city of New
   York, in relation to continuation of the New York city rent stabiliza-
   tion law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1 of chapter 21  of  the  laws  of
 1962,  constituting  the  local  emergency  housing rent control act, as
 amended by chapter 657 of the laws  of  1967,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  Local determination as to continuation of emergency. The continua-
 tion, after May  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  of  the
 public  emergency  requiring  the  regulation and control of residential
 rents and evictions within cities having a population of one million  or
 more  shall  be  a matter for local determination within each such city.
 Any such determination shall be made by the local  legislative  body  of
 such  city on or before April first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven and at
 least once in every third year thereafter following a survey  which  the
 city  shall  cause  to  be  made of the supply of housing accommodations
 within such city, the condition of such accommodations and the need  for
 continuing the regulation and control of residential rents and evictions
 within  such  city,  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT WHEN THE DATE BY WHICH SUCH
 DETERMINATION SHALL BE MADE FALLS IN A CALENDAR YEAR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW-
 ING  A  CALENDAR  YEAR  DURING  WHICH  A  FEDERAL  DECENNIAL  CENSUS  IS
 CONDUCTED,  SUCH  DATE SHALL BE POSTPONED BY ONE YEAR. Such survey shall
 be submitted to such legislative body not less than thirty nor more than
 sixty days prior to the date of any such determination.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD13403-01-9

 S. 6551                             2
 
   § 2. Section 26-520 of the administrative code  of  the  city  of  New
 York,  as amended by local law number 85 of the city of New York for the
 year of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   § 26-520 Expiration date. This chapter shall expire on April 1, [2021]
 2022  unless rent control shall sooner terminate as provided in subdivi-
 sion three of section one of the local emergency  housing  rent  control
 law.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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