NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4252

Senate Bill S4252

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee

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- Passed Assembly
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2025-S4252 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:: New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:: Amd §26-605, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S5495
2015-2016: S529
2017-2018: S3627
2019-2020: S4825
2021-2022: S5280
2023-2024: S6383

2025-S4252 (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.

2025-S4252 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4252

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 bene-
fits after a period of ineligibility due to a head of household's tempo-
rary 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:

Section 1: 26-605 of the administrative code of the city of New York is
amended by adding a new subdivision (e).

Section 2: This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to

relevant applications for the senior rent increase exemption benefits
filed on or after such date.

 
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 one
time increases in income. This income spike will disqualify the appli-
cant 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 effectively
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:

2023-24: S6383- Referred to Aging

2021-22: S.5280 - Referred to Aging

2019-20: S.4825 - Referred to Aging

2017-18: S.3627 - 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.

2025-S4252 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4252
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER,  ADDABBO,  ASHBY,  WEBB -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Housing, Construction and Community Development
 
 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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07947-01-5
 S. 4252                             2

 
   § 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.

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Kevin S. Parker