Bill Text: NY A09760 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Clarifies in certain provisions of law 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 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-24 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [A09760 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09760-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9760
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 5, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. DILAN, PEOPLES-STOKES -- (at request of the Divi-
          sion  of  Human  Rights) -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to clarifying in  certain
          provisions  of  law  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.
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