Bill Text: NY A03420 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3420 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-21 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [A03420 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3420
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 25, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Housing
       AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to granting tenants,
         with a physically disabling condition that affects their  mobility,  a
         preference in occupying a vacant dwelling unit on a lower floor in the
         same  building  in  projects  operated  by  the  New York city housing
         authority
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE  CONTRARY,  UPON
    4  THE VACANCY OF A DWELLING UNIT IN ANY PROJECT OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY,
    5  SUCH VACANT DWELLING UNIT SHALL FIRST BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR OCCUPANCY TO
    6  ANY TENANT WITHIN THE SAME BUILDING WHO LIVES ON A HIGHER FLOOR THAN THE
    7  VACANT  DWELLING UNIT, WHEN THE VACANT DWELLING UNIT IS THE SAME SIZE OR
    8  SMALLER THAN THE UNIT OCCUPIED BY SUCH TENANT, AND  WHO  HAS  OR  HAS  A
    9  FAMILY  MEMBER  RESIDING WITH HIM OR HER, WHO HAS A PHYSICALLY DISABLING
   10  CONDITION THAT AFFECTS MOBILITY.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   12  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08113-01-1