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                                   3630
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 11, 2019
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- 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 private housing finance law, in relation to  prefer-
   ences  under  the  affordable  home  ownership development program for
   service related disabled veterans

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  3 of section 1112 of the
 private housing finance law, as amended by chapter 898 of  the  laws  of
 1986, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) Serve the lowest income households in the applicable region and is
 designed  to continue to be affordable to such households for a substan-
 tial period of time[.] OR SERVE HOUSEHOLDS IN WHICH THE HOME BUYER IS  A
 SERVICE RELATED DISABLED VETERAN.
   FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "SERVICE RELATED DISABLED VETERAN" SHALL
 MEAN  A  PERSON  (I)  WHO  SERVED  IN THE ACTIVE MILITARY, NAVAL, OR AIR
 SERVICE DURING A TIME OF WAR AS DEFINED IN THIS PARAGRAPH, OR WHO WAS  A
 RECIPIENT  OF  THE  ARMED FORCES EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL, NAVY EXPEDITIONARY
 MEDAL, MARINE CORPS EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL,  OR  GLOBAL  WAR  ON  TERRORISM
 EXPEDITIONARY  MEDAL, AND WHO WAS DISCHARGED OR RELEASED THEREFROM UNDER
 HONORABLE CONDITIONS, (II) HAS BEEN AWARDED A DISABILITY RATING OF FORTY
 PERCENT OR HIGHER FROM THE FEDERAL VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION OR FROM  THE
 UNITED  STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, WHERE THAT DISABILITY WAS INCURRED
 IN LINE OF DUTY IN THE ACTIVE MILITARY, NAVAL OR AIR SERVICE,  AS  DOCU-
 MENTED ACCORDING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS TO BE PROMULGATED BY THE DIVI-
 SION.
   FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "SERVICE DURING TIME OF WAR" SHALL
 MEAN: (I) THE INDIVIDUAL IN QUESTION WAS A RECIPIENT OF THE ARMED FORCES
 EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL, THE NAVY EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL OR  THE  MARINE  CORPS
 EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL FOR PARTICIPATION IN OPERATIONS IN LEBANON FROM JUNE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE TO DECEMBER FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED
 EIGHTY-SEVEN,  IN  GRENADA  FROM  OCTOBER TWENTY-THIRD, NINETEEN HUNDRED
 EIGHTY-THREE TO NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE, OR
 IN PANAMA FROM DECEMBER TWENTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE TO JANU-
 ARY THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY, OR;
   (II)  THE  INDIVIDUAL SERVED ON ACTIVE DUTY FOR NINETY DAYS OR MORE IN
 THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES DURING ANY ONE  OF  THE  FOLLOWING
 WARS OR HOSTILITIES:
   (1) IN THE MEXICAN BORDER CAMPAIGN FROM THE NINTH DAY OF MAY, NINETEEN
 HUNDRED  SIXTEEN, TO THE FIFTH DAY OF APRIL, NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN,
 INCLUSIVE;
   (2) IN WORLD WAR I FROM THE  SIXTH  DAY  OF  APRIL,  NINETEEN  HUNDRED
 SEVENTEEN  TO  THE  ELEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTEEN,
 INCLUSIVE;
   (3) IN WORLD WAR II FROM THE SEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED
 FORTY-ONE TO THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER, NINETEEN  HUNDRED  FORTY-
 SIX, INCLUSIVE;
   (4)  IN  THE  KOREAN  HOSTILITIES FROM THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE,
 NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY TO THE  THIRTY-FIRST  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  NINETEEN
 HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE, INCLUSIVE;
   (5)  IN  THE  VIETNAM CONFLICT FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF DECEMBER,
 NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE TO THE SEVENTH DAY OF MAY,  NINETEEN  HUNDRED
 SEVENTY-FIVE;
   (6)  IN THE PERSIAN GULF CONFLICT FROM THE SECOND DAY OF AUGUST, NINE-
 TEEN HUNDRED NINETY TO THE END OF SUCH CONFLICT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.