Bill Text: NY S05596 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that elderly and long-time residents of public housing shall not be subject to transfers based on family composition.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S05596 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05596-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5596
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 19, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 limiting the
          right of the New York city housing authority to transfer  elderly  and
          long-time residents from their housing accommodations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 402 of the public housing law,  as
     2  added by chapter 970 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6.  In  addition  to all other powers granted by this chapter, the New
     4  York city housing authority shall have the power to act as  and  be  and
     5  become  a  "developer",  as  that term is defined in subdivision nine of
     6  section four hundred fifty-two of the education law, of a combined occu-
     7  pancy structure, as defined in subdivision five of section four  hundred
     8  fifty-two  of  such law, which consists of a project, as defined in this
     9  chapter, as well as of school accommodations or other facilities of  the
    10  board  of  education  of  the  city of New York, and to be and become an
    11  "owner", as that term is defined in  subdivision  fifteen-a  of  section
    12  four  hundred fifty-two of the education law, of the non-school portion,
    13  consisting of a project as defined in this  chapter,  of  such  combined
    14  occupancy  structure;  and  to  do all things necessary or convenient to
    15  carry out such powers, including (a) construction of such combined occu-
    16  pancy structure as a developer pursuant to the provisions of this  chap-
    17  ter and article ten of the education law, and conveyance or lease of the
    18  school  portion  thereof,  and (b) as an owner, making and entering into
    19  contracts for acquisition, lease, sublease or other  agreements  for  or
    20  with  respect  to  the  non-school  portion,  consisting of a project as
    21  defined in this chapter, pursuant to the provisions of  article  ten  of
    22  the  education  law, and acquiring the same by transfer or conveyance to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 5596                             2
     1  it of the fee title, or of possession  under  such  lease,  sublease  or
     2  other agreement.
     3    Notwithstanding  any law to the contrary, any resident lease agreement
     4  entered into by the  New  York  city  housing  authority,  containing  a
     5  "transfer  to  appropriate  size apartment" provision, or such provision
     6  having substantially the same effect, shall not apply where a member  of
     7  the  household lawfully occupying the housing accommodation is sixty-two
     8  years of age or older, or has been a tenant in the housing accommodation
     9  in that building for twenty years or more.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.