Senate Bill S8419

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Enacts the "emergency rent relief act of 2020" to establish an interim residential rent relief program

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S8419 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10522
Law Section:
Housing

2019-S8419 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "emergency rent relief act of 2020" to establish an interim residential rent relief program.

2019-S8419 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8419 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8419
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 25, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community Development
 
 AN  ACT  in relation to enacting the "emergency rent relief act of 2020"
   to establish an  interim  residential  rent  relief  program;  and  to
   provide for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "emergency rent relief act of 2020".
   § 2. 1. For the purposes of this act:
   a. "Coverage period" shall mean April 1, 2020 through July 31, 2020.
   b.  "Eligible  household"  shall  mean  a household (i) with an income
 below 80 percent of the area median income, as adjusted for family size,
 both prior to March 7, 2020 and at the time of application; (ii) with  a
 rent  burden both prior to March 7, 2020 and at the time of application;
 and (iii) has lost income during the coverage period.
   c. "Income" shall mean income from all sources of each member  of  the
 household, including all wages, tips, overtime, salary, recurring gifts,
 returns  on  investments,  welfare assistance, social security payments,
 child support payments, unemployment benefits, any benefit,  payment  or
 cash grant whose purpose is to assist with rental payments, any payments
 whose  purpose is to replace lost income, and any other government bene-
 fit or cash grant. The term "income"  shall  not  include:    employment
 income from children under eighteen years of age, employment income from
 children  eighteen  years  of  age  or older who are full-time students,
 foster care payments, sporadic gifts, groceries provided by persons  not
 living in the household, supplemental nutrition assistance program bene-
 fits, earned income disallowance, or the earned income tax credit.
   d.  "Fair market rent" shall mean the fair market rent for each rental
 area as promulgated annually by the United States department of  housing
 and urban development's office of policy development and research pursu-
 ant to 42 USC 1437f.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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