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
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