STATE OF NEW YORK
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1084
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2023
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 31 of the private housing finance
2 law, as amended by chapter 399 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 7. Preference in admission to a project with an open waiting list, as
5 determined by the commissioner or the supervising agency, shall be given
6 by a mutual company or an urban rental company or by the New York state
7 housing finance agency when subleasing dwellings in projects of such
8 companies pursuant to section forty-four-a of this chapter, to persons
9 or surviving spouses of persons who are veterans as such term is defined
10 pursuant to section eighty-five of the civil service law. The number of
11 persons given preference as a veteran or a surviving spouse of a veteran
12 shall be published adjacent to the application to be on such waiting
13 list. For projects with a closed list, as determined by the commissioner
14 or the supervising agency, such preference shall be given upon the open-
15 ing of the waiting list. Notwithstanding the foregoing, persons who are
16 residing in a limited-profit housing project shall be given first prior-
17 ity for an internal transfer in the project in which they are residing
18 in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner
19 or the supervising agency.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
21 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
22 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
23 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
24 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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