Bill Text: NY A07811 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7811 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 - Dead) 2016-02-26 - print number 7811a [A07811 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07811-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7811--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 27, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing -- recommitted to the  Committee  on  Housing  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        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 179 of the laws  of
     3  2006, 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 twenty-eighth day of  February,  nine-
     8  teen  hundred  sixty-one  to  the  seventh  day of May, nineteen hundred
     9  seventy-five, or between the fourteenth day of September,  two  thousand
    10  one to the thirty-first day of December, two thousand seventeen, 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.
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