Bill Text: NY S06172 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to clarifying that reasonable accommodation to enable a person with a disability to use and enjoy a dwelling includes the use of an animal to alleviate the symptoms or effects of a disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-08-11 - signed chap.137 [S06172 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06172-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6172

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 21, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MARTINEZ  --  (at request of the Division of Human
          Rights) -- read twice and ordered printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive  law,  in relation to clarifying that
          reasonable accommodation to enable a person with a disability  to  use
          and  enjoy  a  dwelling includes the use of an animal to alleviate the
          symptoms or effects of a disability

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  2  of  paragraph  (d) of subdivision 2-a of
     2  section 296 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 196 of the  laws
     3  of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (2)  To  refuse  to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies,
     5  practices, or services, when such accommodations  may  be  necessary  to
     6  afford  a  person with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy a
     7  dwelling, including the use of an animal as a  reasonable  accommodation
     8  to  alleviate symptoms or effects of a disability, and including reason-
     9  able modification to common use portions of the dwelling, or
    10    § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision 18 of section  296  of  the  executive
    11  law,  as  amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
    12  as follows:
    13    (2) To refuse to make reasonable accommodations  in  rules,  policies,
    14  practices,  or  services,  when  such accommodations may be necessary to
    15  afford said person with a disability equal opportunity to use and  enjoy
    16  a dwelling, including the use of an animal as a reasonable accommodation
    17  to  alleviate symptoms or effects of a disability, and including reason-
    18  able modification to common use portions of the dwelling, or
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09281-01-9