Bill Text: NY S06054 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to excluding income from the employment of children when calculating income for the selection of tenants; excludes income from the employment of children under 18 and full-time students over 18 and earnings in excess of $480 per month.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06054-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6054--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                   September 23, 2015
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        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Housing, Construction and Community Development in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  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  income  from
          employment of children
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 156 of  the  public
     2  housing law, as amended by chapter 21 of the laws of 1982, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a.  for  persons  or  families  of low income whose probable aggregate
     5  annual income during the period of occupancy does not exceed  six  times
     6  the  rental  (including  the value or cost to them of heat, light, water
     7  and cooking fuel) of the dwellings to be furnished such persons or fami-
     8  lies, except that in the case of persons or families with four  or  more
     9  dependents,  such  ratio  shall  not exceed seven to one; in calculating
    10  annual income, social security payments and income received from pension
    11  funds by any person sixty-two years of age or more shall be excluded  up
    12  to a total maximum amount of seventy-five dollars per month; income from
    13  employment  of  children,  including  foster  children, under the age of
    14  eighteen years and income from each full-time student eighteen years  of
    15  age  or  older,  excluding  the head of household and spouse, earning in
    16  excess of four hundred eighty dollars per month  shall  be  excluded  in
    17  calculating household income;
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08371-02-6