Bill Text: NY A07331 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to clarifying that reasonable accommodation to enable a person with a disability to use and enjoy a dwelling includes the use of an animal to alleviate the symptoms or effects of a disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-08-11 - signed chap.137 [A07331 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07331-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7331 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 23, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DILAN, TITUS -- (at request of the Division of Human Rights) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern- mental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to clarifying that reasonable accommodation to enable a person with a disability to use and enjoy a dwelling includes the use of an animal to alleviate the symptoms or effects of a disability The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (d) of subdivision 2-a of 2 section 296 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws 3 of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 4 (2) To refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, 5 practices, or services, when such accommodations may be necessary to 6 afford a person with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy a 7 dwelling, including the use of an animal as a reasonable accommodation 8 to alleviate symptoms or effects of a disability, and including reason- 9 able modification to common use portions of the dwelling, or 10 § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision 18 of section 296 of the executive 11 law, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read 12 as follows: 13 (2) To refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, 14 practices, or services, when such accommodations may be necessary to 15 afford said person with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy 16 a dwelling, including the use of an animal as a reasonable accommodation 17 to alleviate symptoms or effects of a disability, and including reason- 18 able modification to common use portions of the dwelling, or 19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09281-01-9