Bill Text: NY S02372 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                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