Senate Bill S7193

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to applying the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to rent calculations and rent records maintenance and destruction

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S7193 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Cities 1
Law Section:
Housing
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S2943

2021-S7193 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to applying the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to rent calculations and rent records maintenance and destruction for all rent stabilized apartments.

2021-S7193 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7193 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7193
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 5, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to apply the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of  2019
   to rent calculations and rent records maintenance and destruction
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative findings.  The  legislature  hereby  finds  and
 declares that:
   (a)  the  pool of rent regulated apartments in New York state contains
 an unacceptably high number of apartments in which the current rents are
 based on prior rents that exceeded the legal regulated rent at the  time
 they were charged, but for which remedies were limited  under the law in
 effect  before  the  effective  date of the Housing Stability and Tenant
 Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA);
   (b) it is public policy prospectively to reduce, insofar as  possible,
 those  rents  to  a  level in line with what they would have been in the
 absence of the unlawful rent setting and deregulations that were permit-
 ted under prior law to go unremedied, and therefore to impose  the  rent
 calculation  standards  of  the HSTPA prospectively from the date of its
 enactment, including in cases where the pre-HSTPA rent has already  been
 established by a court or administrative agency;
   (c)  the  purpose  of  the  prospective application of the penalty and
 record review provisions of  the  HSTPA  is  to  prevent  the  perpetual
 collection  of  unlawful and inflated rents, and to encourage the volun-
 tary registration of any rent stabilized apartment for which  any  prior
 annual  registration  statement has not been filed, and to encourage the
 voluntary recalculation of unreliable pre-HSTPA rents;
   (d) in light of court decisions  arising  under  the  HSTPA  of  2019,
 including REGINA METRO V. DHCR, it is public policy that the legislature
 define  clearly  the  prospective  reach  of that law, and limit, to the
 extent required by the constitution, the retroactive reach of that law;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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