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                                   2451
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  KAVANAGH,  ADDABBO,  SEPULVEDA  -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Aging
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law and the administrative code of
   the  city  of  New York, in relation to establishing a maximum rent of
   one-third of household income for the senior  citizens  rent  increase
   exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent increase exemption (DRIE)
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "senior citizens rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent
 increase exemption (DRIE) rollback act".
   §  2.  Subdivision  4 of section 467-b of the real property tax law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
   C. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN A CITY OF A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR
 MORE, A TAX ABATEMENT CERTIFICATE SETTING FORTH AN AMOUNT EQUAL  TO  THE
 AMOUNT  BY  WHICH THE MAXIMUM RENT OR LEGAL REGULATED RENT OF THE SUBSE-
 QUENT DWELLING UNIT EXCEEDS ONE-THIRD OF  THE  COMBINED  INCOME  OF  ALL
 MEMBERS  OF THE HOUSEHOLD FOR THE TAXABLE PERIOD SHALL BE ISSUED BY SAID
 AGENCY TO EACH HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD WHO IS FOUND TO BE ELIGIBLE UNDER  THIS
 SECTION  AND  UPON APPLICATION TO THE APPROPRIATE RENT CONTROL AGENCY OR
 ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY ON A FORM PRESCRIBED BY SAID AGENCY ON  OR  BEFORE
 THE  LAST  DATE  PRESCRIBED  BY  LAW FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE TAXES OR THE
 FIRST INSTALLMENT THEREFOR OF ANY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION WHICH HAS GRANT-
 ED AN ABATEMENT OF TAXES. COPIES OF SUCH CERTIFICATE SHALL BE ISSUED  TO
 THE  OWNER OF THE REAL PROPERTY CONTAINING THE DWELLING UNIT OF THE HEAD
 OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND TO THE COLLECTING OFFICER CHARGED WITH THE DUTY  OF
 COLLECTING THE TAXES OR EACH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION WHICH HAS GRANTED THE
 ABATEMENT OF TAXES AUTHORIZED BY THIS SECTION.
   §  3.  Subdivision (a) of section 26-605 of the administrative code of
 the city of New York, as amended by local law number 98 of the  city  of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 S. 2451                             2
 
 New  York  for  the year 1985 and paragraph 3 as added by chapter 553 of
 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Subject to the provisions of this chapter an eligible head of the
 household may obtain  a  rent  increase  exemption  order/tax  abatement
 certificate  entitling  [him  or  her]  SUCH HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD to an
 exemption from increases in the maximum rent  EQUAL  TO  THE  AMOUNT  BY
 WHICH  THE MAXIMUM RENT OR LEGAL REGULATED RENT OF THE SUBSEQUENT DWELL-
 ING UNIT EXCEEDS ONE-THIRD OF THE COMBINED INCOME OF ALL MEMBERS OF  THE
 HOUSEHOLD otherwise payable in one of the following amounts:
   (1) where the eligible head of the household does not receive a month-
 ly allowance for shelter pursuant to the social services law, the amount
 by  which  increases  in  the  maximum  rent subsequent to such persons'
 eligibility date have resulted in the maximum rent  exceeding  one-third
 of  the  combined income of all members of the household for the taxable
 period, except that in no event shall a rent  increase  exemption  order
 tax abatement certificate become effective prior to January first, nine-
 teen hundred seventy-six; or
   (2) where the eligible head of the household receives a monthly allow-
 ance  for  shelter  pursuant  to  the social services law, an amount not
 exceeding that portion of any increase in  maximum  rent  subsequent  to
 such  person's  eligibility  date  which  is  not covered by the maximum
 allowance for shelter which such person is entitled to receive  pursuant
 to the social services law.
   [(3)  notwithstanding  paragraph  one  of  this subdivision, where the
 eligible head of the household is a person who  qualifies  as  a  person
 with a disability pursuant to section 26-617 of this chapter and who has
 been  granted  a  rent  increase exemption order that is in effect as of
 January first, two thousand fifteen or takes effect on  or  before  July
 first,  two  thousand  fifteen,  the  amount specified in such order, as
 adjusted by any other provision of this chapter, regardless  of  whether
 increases  in  the  maximum rent subsequent to such persons' eligibility
 date have resulted in  the  maximum  rent  exceeding  one-third  of  the
 combined income of all members of the household for the taxable period.]
   §  4.  Item (a) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph 3 of subdivision b of
 section 26-509 of the administrative code of the city of  New  York,  as
 amended  by  local  law  number  98 of the city of New York for the year
 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) in the case of a head of the household  who  does  not  receive  a
 monthly  allowance for shelter pursuant to the social services law, that
 the landlord may not collect from the tenant to whom it is  issued  rent
 at  a  rate  in excess of [either] one-third of the aggregate disposable
 income[, or the rent in effect  immediately  preceding  the  eligibility
 date, whichever is greater]; or
   §  5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to section 26-509 of chapter 4 of title 26 of  the  administrative
 code  of  the  city  of  New York made by section four of this act shall
 expire on the same date as such law expires and  shall  not  affect  the
 expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.