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                                   6510
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 17, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 eligibility requirements for rent increase exemptions  for
   persons with disabilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision d of section 26-601 of the administrative  code
 of  the  city of New York, as separately amended by local law numbers 75
 and 76 of the city of New York for the year 2005, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   d. "Eligible head of the household" means (1) a person or [his or her]
 THEIR  spouse  who  is sixty-two years of age or older, or (2) A PERSON,
 THEIR SPOUSE OR THEIR CHILD who qualifies as a person with a  disability
 pursuant  to  section  26-617  of  this  chapter  and is entitled to the
 possession or to the use and occupancy of  a  dwelling  unit,  provided,
 however, that with respect to a dwelling which was subject to a mortgage
 insured  or  initially  insured  by  the  federal government pursuant to
 section two hundred thirteen of the national housing  act,  as  amended,
 "eligible  head  of the household" shall be limited to that person [or],
 [his or her] THEIR spouse OR THEIR CHILD IF SUCH CHILD  QUALIFIES  AS  A
 PERSON WITH A DISABILITY PURSUANT TO SECTION 26-617 OF THIS CHAPTER, who
 was  entitled  to  possession  or the use and occupancy of such dwelling
 unit at the time of termination of such mortgage, and whose income  when
 combined  with  the  income  of all other members of the household whose
 head of household is sixty-two years of age or  older  does  not  exceed
 twenty-five  thousand  dollars  beginning July first, two thousand five,
 twenty-six thousand dollars beginning  July  first,  two  thousand  six,
 twenty-seven  thousand dollars beginning July first, two thousand seven,
 twenty-eight thousand dollars beginning July first, two thousand  eight,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 and  twenty-nine  thousand  dollars  beginning  July first, two thousand
 nine, for the taxable period, or whose income for the current income tax
 year when combined with the income  of  all  members  of  the  household
 residing  in  the housing accommodation whose head of the household is a
 person with a disability does not exceed the maximum income above  which
 such head of the household would not be eligible to receive cash supple-
 mental security income benefits under federal law during such tax year.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.