Bill Text: NY S04558 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the New York city housing authority, in reviewing applicants, to grant homeless domestic violence victims the same preference as granted the homeless.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-25 - referred to housing [S04558 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S04558-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4558--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 27, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. KLEIN, AVELLA, ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing,
Construction and Community Development -- 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 preferences and
priorities for prospective public housing and section 8 tenants in the
city of New York
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 402-b of the
2 public housing law, as added by chapter 3 of the laws of 2010, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (e) All prospective public housing and Section 8 tenants shall be
5 selected from a waiting list which shall be maintained by the New York
6 city housing authority in compliance with the federal public housing and
7 Section 8 laws and all applicable rules and regulations. The New York
8 city housing authority and each respective project owner shall screen
9 tenants and jointly have final approval over tenant selection all in
10 accordance with aforementioned laws, rules and regulations. All prospec-
11 tive public housing tenants shall be taken from the waiting list in the
12 order in which they applied for the size appropriate unit, subject
13 however to preferences and priorities provided for in [the public hous-
14 ing law] THIS CHAPTER and all applicable rules and regulations;
15 PROVIDED, HOWEVER THAT, ANY PRIORITY OR PREFERENCE OFFERED TO APPLICANTS
16 BASED ON THEIR RESIDENCE IN A CITY OWNED, OPERATED OR CONTRACTED HOME-
17 LESS SHELTER MUST ALSO BE OFFERED EQUITABLY AND EVENLY TO APPLICANTS
18 RESIDING IN A CITY OWNED, OPERATED OR CONTRACTED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHEL-
19 TER OR IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER LICENSED BY THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN
20 AND FAMILY SERVICES.
21 S 2. 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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