Bill Text: NY A09758 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain housing projects in a city with a population of one million or more to designate a minimum of thirty-two percent of the dwelling units in such project for low income housing to be eligible for state funding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-19 - print number 9758a [A09758 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09758-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9758--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 10, 2020
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to imposing require-
          ments on receipt of state funding by certain  housing  projects  in  a
          city with a population of one million or more

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

     1    Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  77 to read as follows:
     3    §  77. Conditions precedent to certain state funding. 1. Notwithstand-
     4  ing  any  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  no  project  for   new
     5  construction,  reconstruction  or rehabilitation of housing located in a
     6  city with a population of one million or more shall be eligible for  any
     7  source  of state funding, including but not limited to, loans, subsidies
     8  or tax incentives unless the commissioner finds that a minimum of  thir-
     9  ty-two  percent of the dwelling units in such project are designated for
    10  low income housing. A number of such designated dwelling units  equaling
    11  two percent of the total dwelling units in such project shall be offered
    12  to the construction workers who worked on the project through a lottery.
    13    2.  Such  findings  shall  be conclusive evidence of the facts therein
    14  contained except upon proof of  fraud  or  willful  misfeasance  by  the
    15  commissioner.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15150-03-0