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Senate Bill S1652

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to excluding income from the employment of children when calculating income for the selection of tenants

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2017-S1652 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A269
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §156, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6054, A9865
2019-2020: S3084

2017-S1652 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to excluding income from the employment of children when calculating income for the selection of tenants; excludes income from the employment of children under 18 and full-time students over 18 and earnings in excess of $480 per month.

2017-S1652 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1652 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1652
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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  public  housing law, in relation to income from
   employment of children
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 156 of the public
 housing law, as amended by chapter 21 of the laws of 1982, is amended to
 read as follows:
   a. for persons or families of  low  income  whose  probable  aggregate
 annual  income  during the period of occupancy does not exceed six times
 the rental (including the value or cost to them of  heat,  light,  water
 and cooking fuel) of the dwellings to be furnished such persons or fami-
 lies,  except  that in the case of persons or families with four or more
 dependents, such ratio shall not exceed seven  to  one;  in  calculating
 annual income, social security payments and income received from pension
 funds  by any person sixty-two years of age or more shall be excluded up
 to a total maximum amount of seventy-five dollars per month; INCOME FROM
 EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN, INCLUDING FOSTER  CHILDREN,  UNDER  THE  AGE  OF
 EIGHTEEN  YEARS AND INCOME FROM EACH FULL-TIME STUDENT EIGHTEEN YEARS OF
 AGE OR OLDER, EXCLUDING THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD  AND  SPOUSE,  EARNING  IN
 EXCESS  OF  FOUR  HUNDRED  EIGHTY DOLLARS PER MONTH SHALL BE EXCLUDED IN
 CALCULATING HOUSEHOLD INCOME;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00577-01-7

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