Bill Text: NY S02372 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | 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 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-11-10 - SIGNED CHAP.621 [S02372 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S02372-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2372 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 20, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, ADDABBO -- 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 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