Assembly Bill A9501

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to preferences to veterans for rentals and selection of tenants by certain housing companies

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  • 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-A9501 - Details

Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §31, Priv Hous Fin L

2009-A9501 - Summary

Relates to preferences to veterans for rentals and selection of tenants by certain housing companies.

2009-A9501 - Sponsor Memo

2009-A9501 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9501

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 7, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. GIANARIS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Housing

AN  ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to prefer-
  ences to veterans for rentals and  selection  of  tenants  by  certain
  housing companies

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 31 of the private housing  finance
law,  as added by chapter 154 of the laws of 1969, the opening paragraph
as amended by chapter 650 of the laws  of  1976  and  paragraph  (a)  as
amended  by  chapter  179  of  the  laws  of 2006, is amended to read as
follows:
  7. Preference in admission to a project shall be  given  by  a  mutual
company  or  an  urban  rental  company or by the New York state housing
finance agency when subleasing dwellings in projects of  such  companies
pursuant  to section forty-four-a of this chapter, to persons or surviv-
ing spouses of persons who
  [(a) have served in the armed forces of the United States for a period
of at least six months (or any shorter period which  terminated  due  to
death  or injury incurred in such service), provided some portion of the
period of service was between the twenty-eighth day of  February,  nine-
teen  hundred  sixty-one  to  the  seventh  day of May, nineteen hundred
seventy-five, and
  (b) have been thereafter discharged or released therefrom under condi-
tions other than dishonorable, or died in such service,  not  more  than
five  years  prior  to  the  time  of  application for admission to such
project] ARE VETERANS AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED PURSUANT TO SECTION EIGHT-
Y-FIVE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
  S 2.  This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15039-02-9

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2009-A9501A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §31, Priv Hous Fin L

2009-A9501A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to preferences to veterans for rentals and selection of tenants by certain housing companies.

2009-A9501A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 9501--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 7, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. GIANARIS, ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to
  the Committee  on  Housing  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to prefer-
  ences to veterans for rentals and  selection  of  tenants  by  certain
  housing companies

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

  Section 1. Subdivisions 7 and 7-a of section 31 of the private housing
finance law, subdivision 7 as added by chapter 154 of the laws of  1969,
the  opening paragraph of subdivision seven as amended by chapter 650 of
the laws of 1976, paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 as amended  by  chapter
179  of  the laws of 2006 and subdivision 7-a as added by chapter 420 of
the laws of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
  7. Preference in admission to a project WITH AN OPEN WAITING LIST,  AS
DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER OR THE SUPERVISING AGENCY, shall be given
by  a mutual company or an urban rental company or by the New York state
housing finance agency when subleasing dwellings  in  projects  of  such
companies  pursuant  to section forty-four-a of this chapter, to persons
or surviving spouses of persons who
  [(a) have served in the armed forces of the United States for a period
of at least six months (or any shorter period which  terminated  due  to
death  or injury incurred in such service), provided some portion of the
period of service was between the twenty-eighth day of  February,  nine-
teen  hundred  sixty-one  to  the  seventh  day of May, nineteen hundred
seventy-five, and
  (b) have been thereafter discharged or released therefrom under condi-
tions other than dishonorable, or died in such service,  not  more  than
five  years  prior  to  the  time  of  application for admission to such
project.
  7-a. Preference in admission to a project with an open  waiting  list,
as  determined  by  the commissioner or the supervising agency, shall be
given to disabled] ARE veterans as such  term  is  defined  pursuant  to
section eighty-five of the civil service law. For projects with a closed

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

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