Bill Text: NY S02542 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CITIES [S02542 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02542-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2542
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 26, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. HAMILTON -- 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 granting tenants,
         with  a  physically disabling condition that affects their mobility, a
         preference in occupying a vacant dwelling unit on a lower floor in the
         same building in projects  operated  by  the  New  York  city  housing
         authority
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by  adding
    2  a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    10.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, UPON
    4  THE VACANCY OF A DWELLING UNIT IN ANY PROJECT OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY,
    5  SUCH VACANT DWELLING UNIT SHALL FIRST BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR OCCUPANCY TO
    6  ANY TENANT WITHIN THE SAME PROJECT WHO LIVES ON A HIGHER FLOOR THAN  THE
    7  VACANT  DWELLING  UNIT, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE VACANT DWELLING UNIT MUST
    8  BE THE SAME SIZE OR SMALLER THAN THE UNIT OCCUPIED BY SUCH  TENANT,  AND
    9  THE  TENANT  OR  ANY  OTHER  LEGAL  OCCUPANT CURRENTLY RESIDING WITH THE
   10  TENANT HAS A DISABILITY, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWENTY-ONE OF SECTION
   11  TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, THAT AFFECTS MOBILITY.   IF
   12  TWO  OR  MORE TENANTS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH VACANT APARTMENT, PREFERENCE
   13  SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS RESIDED IN THE PROJECT FOR THE
   14  LONGEST PERIOD OF TIME.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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