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Assembly Bill A8631

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the selection of tenants in state aided housing projects in the county of Westchester

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2025-A8631 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8056
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Add §156-d, Pub Hous L

2025-A8631 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the county of Westchester to grant a fifty percent preference in the selection of tenants in state aided housing projects to current residents of the county.

2025-A8631 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8631
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Housing
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to the selection of
   tenants in state aided housing projects in the county of Westchester
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
 156-d to read as follows:
   § 156-D. SELECTION OF TENANTS; WESTCHESTER.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER
 PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE COUNTY OF  WESTCHESTER  MAY  ADOPT
 AND  IMPLEMENT A LOCAL LAW WHICH GRANTS A PREFERENCE IN THE SELECTION OF
 TENANTS IN STATE AIDED PROJECTS  WITHIN  SUCH  COUNTY  OF  UP  TO  FIFTY
 PERCENT  FOR  PERSONS, WHO AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION, ARE CURRENT RESI-
 DENTS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH  APPLICANTS  OTHERWISE
 QUALIFY FOR OCCUPANCY IN SUCH PROJECT.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to appli-
 cations for occupancy received on and after such effective date.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13127-01-5

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