Requires landlords of certain housing accommodations to include with all new and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6906
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to information to
be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accom-
modations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section
2 467-b of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the laws
3 of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
4 (2) a landlord of any housing accommodation subject to provisions of
5 the local emergency housing rent control act, the emergency tenant
6 protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursu-
7 ant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabili-
8 zation law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall[, at least once annual-
9 ly, including] include with [a] all new [lease and all] and renewal
10 leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication,
11 delivered to the occupant of such accommodation[,] provide the informa-
12 tional material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the
13 senior citizen rent increase exemption program and the disability rent
14 increase exemption program, as provided by the entity administering the
15 program pursuant to subparagraph one of this paragraph.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
17 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05668-06-3