STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1084 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to requir- ing the publication of the number of veterans on certain housing wait- ing lists The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 31 of the private housing finance 2 law, as amended by chapter 399 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 7. Preference in admission to a project with an open waiting list, as 5 determined by the commissioner or the supervising agency, shall be given 6 by a mutual company or an urban rental company or by the New York state 7 housing finance agency when subleasing dwellings in projects of such 8 companies pursuant to section forty-four-a of this chapter, to persons 9 or surviving spouses of persons who are veterans as such term is defined 10 pursuant to section eighty-five of the civil service law. The number of 11 persons given preference as a veteran or a surviving spouse of a veteran 12 shall be published adjacent to the application to be on such waiting 13 list. For projects with a closed list, as determined by the commissioner 14 or the supervising agency, such preference shall be given upon the open- 15 ing of the waiting list. Notwithstanding the foregoing, persons who are 16 residing in a limited-profit housing project shall be given first prior- 17 ity for an internal transfer in the project in which they are residing 18 in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner 19 or the supervising agency. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 21 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 22 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 23 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 24 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03106-01-3