S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
April 29, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Housing
AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to requir-
ing the publication of the number of veterans on certain housing wait-
ing lists
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 amended by chapter 399 of the laws of 2010, is 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 are veterans as such term is defined
pursuant to section eighty-five of the civil service law. THE NUMBER OF
PERSONS GIVEN PREFERENCE AS A VETERAN OR A SURVIVING SPOUSE OF A VETERAN
SHALL BE PUBLISHED ADJACENT TO THE APPLICATION TO BE ON SUCH WAITING
LIST. For projects with a closed list, as determined by the commissioner
or the supervising agency, such preference shall be given upon the open-
ing of the waiting list. Notwithstanding the foregoing, persons who are
residing in a limited-profit housing project shall be given first prior-
ity for an internal transfer in the project in which they are residing
in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner
or the supervising agency.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14904-01-2