Bill Text: NY S02451 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing a maximum rent of one-third of household income for the senior citizens rent increase exemption and disability rent increase exemption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - REFERRED TO AGING [S02451 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02451-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2451

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  KAVANAGH,  ADDABBO,  SEPULVEDA  -- 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 and the administrative code of
          the  city  of  New York, in relation to establishing a maximum rent of
          one-third of household income for the senior  citizens  rent  increase
          exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent increase exemption (DRIE)

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "senior citizens rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and disability rent
     3  increase exemption (DRIE) rollback act".
     4    §  2.  Subdivision  4 of section 467-b of the real property tax law is
     5  amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
     6    c. Provided, however, that in a city of a population of one million or
     7  more, a tax abatement certificate setting forth an amount equal  to  the
     8  amount  by  which the maximum rent or legal regulated rent of the subse-
     9  quent dwelling unit exceeds one-third of  the  combined  income  of  all
    10  members  of the household for the taxable period shall be issued by said
    11  agency to each head of household who is found to be eligible under  this
    12  section  and  upon application to the appropriate rent control agency or
    13  administrative agency on a form prescribed by said agency on  or  before
    14  the  last  date  prescribed  by  law for the payment of the taxes or the
    15  first installment therefor of any municipal corporation which has grant-
    16  ed an abatement of taxes. Copies of such certificate shall be issued  to
    17  the  owner of the real property containing the dwelling unit of the head
    18  of the household and to the collecting officer charged with the duty  of
    19  collecting the taxes or each municipal corporation which has granted the
    20  abatement of taxes authorized by this section.
    21    §  3.  Subdivision (a) of section 26-605 of the administrative code of
    22  the city of New York, as amended by local law number 98 of the  city  of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00073-01-5
        S. 2451                             2

     1  New  York  for  the year 1985 and paragraph 3 as added by chapter 553 of
     2  the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     3    (a)  Subject to the provisions of this chapter an eligible head of the
     4  household may obtain  a  rent  increase  exemption  order/tax  abatement
     5  certificate  entitling  [him  or  her]  such head of the household to an
     6  exemption from increases in the maximum rent  equal  to  the  amount  by
     7  which  the maximum rent or legal regulated rent of the subsequent dwell-
     8  ing unit exceeds one-third of the combined income of all members of  the
     9  household otherwise payable in one of the following amounts:
    10    (1) where the eligible head of the household does not receive a month-
    11  ly allowance for shelter pursuant to the social services law, the amount
    12  by  which  increases  in  the  maximum  rent subsequent to such persons'
    13  eligibility date have resulted in the maximum rent  exceeding  one-third
    14  of  the  combined income of all members of the household for the taxable
    15  period, except that in no event shall a rent  increase  exemption  order
    16  tax abatement certificate become effective prior to January first, nine-
    17  teen hundred seventy-six; or
    18    (2) where the eligible head of the household receives a monthly allow-
    19  ance  for  shelter  pursuant  to  the social services law, an amount not
    20  exceeding that portion of any increase in  maximum  rent  subsequent  to
    21  such  person's  eligibility  date  which  is  not covered by the maximum
    22  allowance for shelter which such person is entitled to receive  pursuant
    23  to the social services law.
    24    [(3)  notwithstanding  paragraph  one  of  this subdivision, where the
    25  eligible head of the household is a person who  qualifies  as  a  person
    26  with a disability pursuant to section 26-617 of this chapter and who has
    27  been  granted  a  rent  increase exemption order that is in effect as of
    28  January first, two thousand fifteen or takes effect on  or  before  July
    29  first,  two  thousand  fifteen,  the  amount specified in such order, as
    30  adjusted by any other provision of this chapter, regardless  of  whether
    31  increases  in  the  maximum rent subsequent to such persons' eligibility
    32  date have resulted in  the  maximum  rent  exceeding  one-third  of  the
    33  combined income of all members of the household for the taxable period.]
    34    §  4.  Item (a) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph 3 of subdivision b of
    35  section 26-509 of the administrative code of the city of  New  York,  as
    36  amended  by  local  law  number  98 of the city of New York for the year
    37  1985, is amended to read as follows:
    38    (a) in the case of a head of the household  who  does  not  receive  a
    39  monthly  allowance for shelter pursuant to the social services law, that
    40  the landlord may not collect from the tenant to whom it is  issued  rent
    41  at  a  rate  in excess of [either] one-third of the aggregate disposable
    42  income[, or the rent in effect  immediately  preceding  the  eligibility
    43  date, whichever is greater]; or
    44    §  5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    45  ments to section 26-509 of chapter 4 of title 26 of  the  administrative
    46  code  of  the  city  of  New York made by section four of this act shall
    47  expire on the same date as such law expires and  shall  not  affect  the
    48  expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.