Bill Text: NY S01814 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes reclassification of rent controlled dwelling retroactive to time of decrease in income of members of household of dwelling.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO AGING [S01814 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01814-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1814

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax  abatement
          for  rent-controlled  and  rent  regulated property occupied by senior
          citizens or persons with disabilities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph g of subdivision 3 of section 467-b of the real
     2  property tax law, as amended by chapter 553 of  the  laws  of  2015,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    g. notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where a
     5  head  of  the household holds a current, valid tax abatement certificate
     6  and, after the effective date of this paragraph, there  is  a  permanent
     7  decrease  in  the  combined income of all members of the household in an
     8  amount which exceeds twenty percent of such  income  as  represented  in
     9  such  head of the household's last approved application for a tax abate-
    10  ment certificate or for renewal thereof, such head of the household  may
    11  apply for a redetermination of the amount set forth therein. Upon appli-
    12  cation,  such  amount  shall  be  redetermined so as to re-establish the
    13  ratio of adjusted rent to income which existed at the time  of  approval
    14  of  such  head  of  the household's last application for a tax abatement
    15  certificate or for renewal thereof; provided, however, that in no  event
    16  shall  the  amount of the adjusted rent be redetermined to be (i) in the
    17  case of a head of the household who does not receive a monthly allowance
    18  for shelter pursuant to the social services law, less than one-third  of
    19  the  combined income of all members of the household unless such head of
    20  the household has been granted a rent increase exemption order  that  is
    21  in  effect  as of January first, two thousand fifteen or takes effect on
    22  or before July first, two thousand fifteen; or (ii) in  the  case  of  a
    23  head  of  the  household  who  receives  a monthly allowance for shelter
    24  pursuant to the social services law, less than the maximum allowance for

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05787-01-3
        S. 1814                             2

     1  shelter which such head of the household is entitled to receive pursuant
     2  to such law.  When a redetermination of the adjusted rent has been  made
     3  pursuant  to  this paragraph, such redetermination may, at local option,
     4  be  made retroactive to the date on which there was a permanent decrease
     5  in the combined income of all members of the household; provided, howev-
     6  er, that the look-back period for the retroactive  benefit  pursuant  to
     7  the  redetermination shall be limited to the date upon which the head of
     8  household filed for the most recently approved application  or  renewal.
     9  For purposes of this paragraph, a decrease in the combined income of all
    10  members  of  the household shall not include any decrease in such income
    11  resulting from the manner in which income is calculated pursuant to  any
    12  amendment  to  paragraph c of subdivision one of this section made on or
    13  after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven. For purposes  of  this
    14  paragraph,  "adjusted  rent"  shall mean maximum rent or legal regulated
    15  rent less the amount set forth in a tax abatement certificate.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.