Bill Text: NY A10050 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10050 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the publication of the number of veterans or surviving spouses of veterans on certain housing waiting lists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-29 - referred to housing [A10050 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10050-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10050

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2022
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD14904-01-2