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Senate Bill S6279

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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2009-S6279 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9501
Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §31, Priv Hous Fin L

2009-S6279 - Summary

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

2009-S6279 - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6279 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6279

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            November 9, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ADAMS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

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-S6279A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9501
Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §31, Priv Hous Fin L

2009-S6279A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2009-S6279A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6279A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 6279--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            November 9, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  ADAMS, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recom-
  mitted  to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Devel-
  opment  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15039-03-0

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