Provides preferences in contracts under the affordable home ownership program to police officers, teachers and firefighters who live in the municipality or school district in which they work; defines relevant terms.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7703
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK, TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to prefer-
ences under the affordable home ownership development program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 1112 of the
2 private housing finance law, as amended by chapter 898 of the laws of
3 1986, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Serve the lowest income households in the applicable region and is
5 designed to continue to be affordable to such households for a substan-
6 tial period of time or serve households in which the home buyer is
7 employed as a police officer, firefighter or teacher, provided that such
8 home is located within the boundaries of the area served by the police
9 department, fire department, or elementary or secondary school where
10 such person is so employed. As used in this paragraph: "police officer"
11 shall mean a person who is currently employed as a sworn officer of an
12 authorized police department or force of a city, town or village; "fire-
13 fighter" shall mean a person who is currently employed on a permanent
14 basis as an officer or member of an organized fire department of a city,
15 town, village or fire district; and "teacher" shall mean a person who is
16 currently employed in a teaching capacity in an elementary or secondary
17 school in this state, has graduated from an accredited college or
18 university and holds a valid state teaching certificate issued pursuant
19 to article sixty-one of the education law.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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