Automatically extends enrollment of individuals in the rent increase exemption program for low income elderly persons and persons with disabilities pursuant to section 467-b or 467-c of the real property tax law, the senior citizen homeowners' exemption program pursuant to section 467 of the real property tax law or the disabled homeowners' exemption program pursuant to section 459-c of the real property tax law until January 1, 2021 in response to novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10328--A
IN ASSEMBLY
April 22, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Aging -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to automatically extend the enrollment of individuals in certain
programs in response to novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any individ-
2 ual enrolled in the rent increase exemption program for low income
3 elderly persons and persons with disabilities pursuant to section 467-b
4 or 467-c of the real property tax law, the senior citizen homeowners'
5 exemption program pursuant to section 467 of the real property tax law
6 or the disabled homeowners' exemption program pursuant to section 459-c
7 of the real property tax law as of the effective date of this act and
8 who does not reenroll in such program due to concerns related to the
9 state disaster emergency declared pursuant to executive order two
10 hundred two of two thousand twenty, as amended, shall remain enrolled in
11 such program until January 1, 2021 or until their current enrollment is
12 set to expire, whichever is later.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16154-02-0
