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NY A07017
Bill
Status
4/19/2021
Primary Sponsor
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
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AI Summary
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Expands the definition of "eligible senior citizens" in cooperative and condominium conversion laws to include any household member age 62 or older lawfully residing in the unit for at least one year, not just the tenant of record and their spouse.
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Expands the definition of "eligible disabled persons" to include any household member with a permanent impairment that substantially limits major life activities, not just the tenant of record and their spouse, if they have resided in the unit for at least one year.
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Changes disability standard from "prevent the tenant from engaging in any substantial gainful employment" to "substantially limit one or more major life activities" to align with federal disability definitions.
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Requires tenants to elect non-purchasing status within 60 days of attorney general acceptance of the conversion plan, with an exception allowing disabled persons to elect within 60 days of disability onset if it occurs after plan acceptance.
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Applies these expanded protections across three separate conversion statutes governing different types of housing conversions in New York.
Legislative Description
Expands definition of eligible senior citizen and disabled person to include any member of the tenant's household lawfully occupying the premises as his or her residence who is 62 years of age with respect to condominium and cooperative conversion to provide protection to disabled and senior citizen non-purchasing residents of buildings that undergo cooperative or condominium conversions under an eviction plan even where such residents are not tenants of record in the buildings.
Last Action
referred to housing
1/5/2022