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

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7811
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 27, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee 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 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 SIXTEEN, and
   11    S 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    S 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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