S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8775
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 2, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, STERN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to expand-
ing the veterans' preference to include veterans who did not serve
during a time of war for certain housing
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 621 of the laws of 2023, 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, REGARDLESS OF
IF SUCH VETERAN SERVED DURING A TIME OF WAR. 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 opening of
the waiting list. Notwithstanding the foregoing, persons who are resid-
ing in a limited-profit housing project shall be given first priority
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 immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05770-01-5
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