Bill Text: NY S08788 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Suspends proceedings to recover real property statewide until after January 20, 2021; stays the execution of warrants of eviction or judgments of possession until after January 20, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-21 - PRINT NUMBER 8788B [S08788 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08788-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8788

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 16, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN  ACT  to mitigate the continuing threat to public health arising from
          COVID-19 by ensuring that  New  Yorkers  are  not  rendered  homeless,
          evicted, or dispossessed of their housing

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

     1    Section 1. Legislative findings. The  legislature  finds  that  as  an
     2  essential  part of the state's efforts to mitigate the continuing threat
     3  to public health arising from the widespread outbreak of the coronavirus
     4  commonly known as COVID-19, it is necessary to ensure that  New  Yorkers
     5  are  not rendered homeless, evicted, or dispossessed of their housing or
     6  summoned before a court to defend their right to continued occupancy  of
     7  their housing.
     8    § 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary:
     9    1. No court shall accept any applications for eviction proceedings, or
    10  issue a warrant of eviction or judgment of possession against a residen-
    11  tial  tenant or other lawful residential occupant on or before September
    12  20, 2020. All eviction proceedings against residential tenants or  other
    13  lawful  residential  occupants  shall be suspended statewide until after
    14  September 20, 2020.
    15    2. No sheriff or marshal shall execute a warrant of eviction or  judg-
    16  ment of possession against a residential tenant or other lawful residen-
    17  tial occupant on or before September 20, 2020. Any court that has issued
    18  a  warrant  of  eviction or judgment of possession against a residential
    19  tenant or other lawful residential occupant shall stay the execution  of
    20  such warrant of eviction or judgment of possession until after September
    21  20, 2020.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16972-01-0