Relates to excluding income from the employment of children when calculating income for the selection of tenants; excludes income from the employment of children under 18 and full-time students over 18 and earnings in excess of $480 per month.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1652
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to income from
employment of children
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 1 of section 156 of the public
2 housing law, as amended by chapter 21 of the laws of 1982, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 a. for persons or families of low income whose probable aggregate
5 annual income during the period of occupancy does not exceed six times
6 the rental (including the value or cost to them of heat, light, water
7 and cooking fuel) of the dwellings to be furnished such persons or fami-
8 lies, except that in the case of persons or families with four or more
9 dependents, such ratio shall not exceed seven to one; in calculating
10 annual income, social security payments and income received from pension
11 funds by any person sixty-two years of age or more shall be excluded up
12 to a total maximum amount of seventy-five dollars per month; income from
13 employment of children, including foster children, under the age of
14 eighteen years and income from each full-time student eighteen years of
15 age or older, excluding the head of household and spouse, earning in
16 excess of four hundred eighty dollars per month shall be excluded in
17 calculating household income;
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00577-01-7
