NY State Senate Bill 2021-S7546

Senate Bill S7546

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires continuity of rent regulated rental units for certain civic and land use improvement projects

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee

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Jan 05, 2022	referred to housing, construction and community development
Nov 24, 2021	referred to rules

2021-S7546 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:: Housing

2021-S7546 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an equal number of rent regulated rental units rendered uninhabitable or vacated due to demolition and new construction or to substantial renovation as part of the Pennsylvania Station Area Civic and Land Use Improvement Project (formerly known as Empire Station Complex Civic and Land Use Improvement Project) to be constructed or renovated and made available to the former tenants of such units for the same rent.

2021-S7546 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7546

SPONSOR: JACKSON
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act requiring continuity of rent regulated rental units for certain
civic and land use improvement projects

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this legislation is to ensure the continuation of rent
regulated units in residential buildings that may be demolished as part
of the Pennsylvania Station Area Civic and Land Use Improvement Project
or any successor project.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 provides that an equal number of rent regulated units that
were in residential buildings that were demolished as part of the Penn-
sylvania Station Area Civic and Land Use Improvement Project (formerly
known as the Empire Station Complex Civic and Land Use Improvement
Project), or any successor project, shall be in any new residential

construction that is part of the project. Further, tenants of rent regu-
lated units in the demolished buildings shall have priority for the
newly constructed rent regulated units in new residential buildings, and
the rent amount for each tenant of a rent regulated unit in the prior
residential building shall transfer over to the newly constructed rent
regulated residential unit.

Section 2 if the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Pennsylvania Station Area Civic and Land Use Improvement Project
(the "Project") calls for expanding Pennsylvania Station and making
changes to the surrounding neighborhood by demolishing buildings, both
residential and commercial. New commercial and residential buildings
would be constructed to replace older buildings similar to the area
around Grand Central Station. In doing so; however, tenants of rent
regulated units will be displaced.

This legislation is to ensure new residential buildings constructed
under the Project will have an equal amount of rent regulated units as
there were prior to a residential building's demolition, that the
tenants of the rent regulated units in buildings that were demolished
will have priority for the newly created rent regulated units, and that
the rent amount being paid by each tenant in the previous rent regulated
unit shall be the same in the newly constructed rent regulated unit.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S7546 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7546
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             November 24, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT requiring continuity of rent regulated rental units  for  certain
   civic and land use improvement projects
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, where
 any rent regulated rental units pursuant to the provisions of the  emer-
 gency  tenant  protection  act  of  nineteen seventy-four, the emergency
 housing rent control law or chapter 3 or 4 of title 26 of  the  adminis-
 trative  code  of  the  city  of  New York in a residential building are
 rendered  uninhabitable  or  are  vacated  due  to  demolition  and  new
 construction  or  to  substantial renovation as part of the Pennsylvania
 Station Area Civic and Land Use Improvement Project (formerly  known  as
 Empire  Station  Complex  Civic  and  Land  Use Improvement Project), or
 successor project, such project shall include the construction or  reno-
 vation  of  an  equal number of units, of sizes at minimum equivalent to
 those vacated or rendered uninhabitable, at the  rent  amount  allowable
 for the units existing prior to the demolition or renovation. Tenants of
 rent  regulated  rental  units  rendered uninhabitable or vacated due to
 demolition and new construction or to substantial renovation as part  of
 such  project shall be given priority for the newly constructed or reno-
 vated rent regulated units, and such newly constructed or renovated rent
 regulated units shall be made available to such tenants at the same rent
 such tenants paid for their replaced rent regulated rental unit.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13588-01-1

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