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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1471
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, COLTON, DINOWITZ, ABBATE, CYMBROW-
ITZ, CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, GLICK, GOTT-
FRIED, LENTOL, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Aging
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:
1 Section 1. Section 26-605 of the administrative code of the city of
2 New York is amended by adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a head of a household
4 to whom a rent increase exemption order/tax abatement certificate has
5 been issued under this chapter, chapter three or chapter four of this
6 title who has become ineligible for such rent increase exemption
7 order/tax abatement certificate as a result of a temporary increase in
8 income for a period of time that does not exceed two years, may, upon
9 resumption of receipt of an income that qualifies for such
10 order/certificate under this chapter, chapter three or chapter four of
11 this title, apply to the supervising agency, subject to the terms and
12 conditions imposed by such relevant chapter, for a rent increase
13 exemption order/tax abatement certificate relating to the same dwelling
14 unit to which the original rent increase exemption order/tax abatement
15 certificate applied, and such order/certificate shall provide that the
16 head of the household shall be exempt from paying that portion of the
17 maximum rent for the dwelling unit which exceeds the last rent that the
18 head of the household was required to pay in the dwelling unit prior to
19 his or her increase in income which caused the temporary ineligibility,
20 plus any non-exempt increases in such maximum rent which may have
21 occurred during the temporary period of ineligibility.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to rele-
23 vant applications for the senior citizen rent increase exemption bene-
24 fits filed on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02601-01-9