Bill Text: NY S03189 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that no tenant of housing accommodations which are subject to rent control shall be subject to a fuel adjustment or pass-along increase in rent; provides that any such increase to such tenant shall be null and void.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S03189 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03189-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3189
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 20, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  KRUEGER, HOYLMAN, MONTGOMERY, PERKINS, SERRANO --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to eliminating fuel pass-along charges for occupants of  rent
          controlled housing accommodations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 26-407.1 to read as follows:
     3    § 26-407.1 Fuel pass-along to tenants under rent  control  prohibited.
     4  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, regulation, charter or
     5  administrative code, tenants of housing accommodations which are subject
     6  to  rent  control  under  this  chapter  shall  not be subject to a fuel
     7  adjustment or pass-along increase in rent and any such increase to  such
     8  tenant shall be null and void.
     9    §  2.    This  act  shall  take  effect on the first of September next
    10  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law;  provided  that
    11  the addition of section 26-407.1 to the city rent and rehabilitation law
    12  made  by  section  one of this act shall remain in full force and effect
    13  only as long as  the  public  emergency  requiring  the  regulation  and
    14  control  of  residential  rents  and evictions continues, as provided in
    15  subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing  rent  control
    16  act.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08767-01-7
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