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                                         2129
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 18, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- 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 the exclusion of
         veterans' disability benefits from computation of income
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1     Section  1.    Section  156  of  the public housing law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    3     8.   FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  SECTION,  PROBABLE  AGGREGATE  ANNUAL
    4  INCOME SHALL NOT INCLUDE DISABILITY BENEFITS PAID BY THE FEDERAL GOVERN-
    5  MENT  TO  A  VETERAN  FOR  A SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY NOR SHALL SUCH
    6  DISABILITY BENEFITS BE INCLUDED IN COMPUTING ANY SURCHARGE AGAINST  SUCH
    7  VETERAN.
    8    S 2.  This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06512-01-1