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Senate Bill S1624

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Excludes veterans' disability benefits from probable aggregate annual income

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2015-S1624 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5616
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง156, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1066
2011-2012: S2129
2013-2014: S3111
2017-2018: S1117, A6973
2019-2020: S1327, A6135
2021-2022: A6520
2023-2024: A4191
2025-2026: A7670

2015-S1624 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that, for purposes of veterans seeking to qualify for public housing, "probable aggregate annual income" shall not include disability benefits paid by federal government to veterans for service-connected disabilities; provides that such disability benefits shall not be included in computing any surcharge against such veterans.

2015-S1624 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1624 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1624

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
  ty and Military Affairs

AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to the exclusion  of
  veterans' disability benefits from computation of income

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

   Section 1.   Section 156 of the public  housing  law  is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.    FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, PROBABLE AGGREGATE ANNUAL
INCOME SHALL NOT INCLUDE DISABILITY BENEFITS PAID BY THE FEDERAL GOVERN-
MENT TO A VETERAN FOR A  SERVICE-CONNECTED  DISABILITY  NOR  SHALL  SUCH
DISABILITY  BENEFITS BE INCLUDED IN COMPUTING ANY SURCHARGE AGAINST SUCH
VETERAN.
  S 2.  This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00947-01-5

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