Bill Text: NY A07224 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7224

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to veterans' eligibility for public housing; expands eligibility requirements to include veterans of the recent conflicts; requires granting of a preference for public housing to veterans or families of veterans who have a military service connected disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to housing [A07224 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07224-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7224

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 15, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Housing

        AN  ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to veterans' eligi-
          bility for public housing

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section
     2  156 of the public housing law, as amended by chapter 606 of the laws  of
     3  2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  have served in the armed forces of the United States for a period
     5  of at least six months (or any shorter period which  terminated  due  to
     6  death  or injury incurred in such service), provided some portion of the
     7  period of service was between the first of  November,  nineteen  hundred
     8  fifty-five  to the seventh day of May, nineteen hundred seventy-five, or
     9  between the fourteenth day of September, two thousand one to  the  thir-
    10  ty-first day of December, two thousand twenty-four, and
    11    §  2. Section 156 of the public housing law is amended by adding a new
    12  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    13    8. An authority shall grant a preference in the selection  of  tenants
    14  to  veterans  or  families  of  veterans  who  have  a  military service
    15  connected disability provided that such veterans or families of veterans
    16  otherwise qualify for occupancy in  such  an  authority's  projects  and
    17  provided further that such authority has complied with the provisions of
    18  section  960.206 of title 24 of the code of federal regulations relating
    19  to such preferences.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05527-01-3