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Senate Bill S1117

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Excludes veterans' disability benefits from probable aggregate annual income

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2017-S1117 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6973
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §156, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1066
2011-2012: S2129
2013-2014: S3111
2015-2016: S1624, A5616
2019-2020: S1327, A6135
2021-2022: A6520
2023-2024: A4191
2025-2026: A7670

2017-S1117 (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.

2017-S1117 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1117 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1117
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  FUNKE, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
   land Security 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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD01364-01-7

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