STATE OF NEW YORK
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7053--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 21, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. BURGOS, CARROLL, BURDICK, ZINERMAN, MITAYNES,
GONZALEZ-ROJAS, ANDERSON, JACKSON, FORREST, SIMON, GOTTFRIED, REYES,
SEPTIMO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing --
recommitted to the Committee on Housing in accordance with Assembly
Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to ensuring formerly
incarcerated individuals have access to public housing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
3 11. Except where such exclusion is required pursuant to any federal
4 law or rule or regulation, no person shall be denied occupancy in a
5 dwelling in any project or be subjected to eviction from any such dwell-
6 ing on the sole ground that such person is a formerly incarcerated indi-
7 vidual.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10828-02-2
