What's happening
This bill requires rent-exemption information with every rent-regulated lease and rent bill, including electronic communications.
Why it matters
Covered housing. The requirement applies to landlords of housing covered by the listed rent-control and rent-stabilization laws in New York.
More frequent notices. The bill replaces the annual notice requirement with notices accompanying all new and renewal leases and every rent bill, including electronic communications.
Benefit information. Materials must explain eligibility for and benefits of the senior citizen and disability rent increase exemption programs. The change would take effect 120 days after becoming law.
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Who cares
Older tenants
They would receive more frequent information about eligibility for the senior citizen rent increase exemption program.
Tenants with disabilities
They would receive information about the disability rent increase exemption program with leases and rent bills.
Rent-regulated landlords
They would need to include program materials with all new and renewal leases and rent bills, including electronic communications.
Rent-exemption program administrators
Their informational materials would be distributed through the expanded notice requirement.
Headline styles
Expand Rent Exemption Notices
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.150
- Rules report cal.150
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Referred to ways and means
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 3283a
- Amend and recommit to housing
- Referred to housing
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Inform Tenants of Rent Exemptions
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Cordell Cleare
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3283--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2023
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to information to be provided with all new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section 467-b of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 424 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
(2) a landlord of any housing accommodation subject to provisions of the local emergency housing rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four or any local laws enacted pursuant thereto, the emergency housing rent control law or the rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall[, at least once annually, including] include with [a] all new [lease and all] and renewal leases, on any rent bills, including any electronic communication, delivered to the occupant of such accommodation[,] provide the informational material describing eligibility for and the benefits of the senior citizen rent increase exemption program and the disability rent increase exemption program, as provided by the entity administering the program pursuant to subparagraph one of this paragraph.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05668-05-3
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