Senate Bill S7127

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to giving preferences with respect to certain projects

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A2364 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S7127 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2364
Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1112 & 1102, Priv Hous Fin L; amd §14, Pub Hous L

2009-S7127 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to giving preferences to former brownfield sites with respect to DHCR unified funding rounds; provides that commissioner has discretion to determine contract awards through a competitive application process.

2009-S7127 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7127 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7127

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 15, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ESPADA -- 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 and the public housing
  law, in relation to preferences with respect to certain projects

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  1112  of the private housing
finance law is amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
  (G) BE LOCATED ON A BROWNFIELD SITE THAT HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE OF
COMPLETION.
  S 2. Subdivision 8 of section 1102 of the private housing finance law,
as amended by chapter 121 of the laws of 1988, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  8.  Within  each  of  the three categories of projects (cooperative or
condominium, rental, or homesteading), preference  in  the  awarding  of
contracts shall be given to economically feasible projects which contain
a  substantial  number  of  persons  of low income whose income does not
exceed fifty percent of the median income for the  metropolitan  statis-
tical area in which the project is located, or if the project is located
outside  such an area, to projects which contain a substantial number of
persons of low income whose incomes do not exceed fifty percent  of  the
median income for the county in which the project is located, ADDITIONAL
PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE PROJECTS LOCATED ON A
BROWNFIELD SITE THAT HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION.
  S  3.  Section 14 of the public housing law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 6 to read as follows:
  6. WHEREVER THE COMMISSIONER HAS THE DISCRETION TO DETERMINE  CONTRACT
AWARDS THROUGH A COMPETITIVE APPLICATION PROCESS, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
GIVE  PREFERENCE  TO  APPLICATIONS  THAT PROPOSE FEASIBLE PROJECTS TO BE
DEVELOPED AND WILL BE LOCATED ON A BROWNFIELD SITE THAT HAS  RECEIVED  A
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05738-01-9

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