Bill Text: NY S01652 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01652 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01652-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1652 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development 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. LBD00577-01-7