S3151-2013 Actions

• Jan 30, 2013: REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

S3151-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3151

TITLE  OF BILL:   An act to amend the administrative code of the city of
New York, in relation to eliminating fuel pass-along charges  for  occu-
pants of rent controlled housing accommodations

PURPOSE  OR  GENERAL  IDEA  OF BILL: This bill prohibits fuel pass-along
charges for occupants of rent controlled housing accommodations.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends the administrative code
of the city of New York by adding a new  section  26-407.1  to  prohibit
fuel  pass-along  increases  in rent for any tenant of any unit which is
subject to rent control.

Section 2 contains the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION: Many of the tenants who reside in units subject  to  rent
control are senior citizens living on fixed incomes. Unlike residents in
other  forms  of  regulated housing, residents in rent controlled apart-
ments face a yearly fuel cost adjustment,  or  pass-along,  based  on  a
percentage  of  the  total  amount  of fuel delivered to a building, and
divided by the number of rooms in that building. When fuel costs are  as
high  as  they  have  been throughout 2008, rent controlled tenants face
excruciating rent hikes. Unlike both rent regulated tenants  and  market
rate  tenants,  rent  controlled  tenants  are  in no way insulated from
sudden and catastrophic rent increases based on higher fuel costs.  This
bill  provides  protection  to  the  residents  of units subject to rent
control, who are likelier to be older, more vulnerable, and less  finan-
cially secure than tenants in other kinds of housing.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE  DATE:  This  act  shall take effect on the first of September
next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a  law;  provided
that the addition of section 26-407.1 to the city rent and stabilization
law  made  by  section  one  of  this act shall remain in full force and
effect only as long as the public emergency requiring the regulation and
control of residential rents and evictions  continues,  as  provided  in
subdivision  3  of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control
act.

S3151-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         3151
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 January 30, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- 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:

 

Section 1.  The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 by adding a new section 26-407.1 to read as follows:

 

S 26-407.1 FUEL PASS-ALONG TO TENANTS UNDER RENT  CONTROL  PROHIBITED.
 NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE, REGULATION, CHARTER OR
 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, TENANTS OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS WHICH ARE SUBJECT
 TO  RENT  CONTROL  UNDER  THIS  CHAPTER  SHALL  NOT BE SUBJECT TO A FUEL
 ADJUSTMENT OR PASS-ALONG INCREASE IN RENT AND ANY SUCH INCREASE TO  SUCH
 TENANT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID.
 

S  2.    This  act  shall  take  effect on the first of September next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law;  provided  that
 the addition of section 26-407.1 to the city rent and rehabilitation law
 made  by  section  one of this act shall remain in full force and effect
 only as long as  the  public  emergency  requiring  the  regulation  and
 control  of  residential  rents  and evictions continues, as provided in
 subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing  rent  control
 act.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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