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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2720
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 17, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. HAMILTON, COMRIE, PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 
        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to granting tenants,
          with a physically disabling condition that affects their  mobility,  a
          preference in occupying a vacant dwelling unit on a lower floor in the
          same  building  in  projects  operated  by  the  New York city housing
          authority
 
          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 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the  contrary,  upon
     4  the vacancy of a dwelling unit in any project operated by the authority,
     5  such vacant dwelling unit shall first be made available for occupancy to
     6  any  tenant within the same project who lives on a higher floor than the
     7  vacant dwelling unit, provided, however, the vacant dwelling  unit  must
     8  be  the  same size or smaller than the unit occupied by such tenant, and
     9  the tenant or any other  legal  occupant  currently  residing  with  the
    10  tenant has a disability, as defined by subdivision twenty-one of section
    11  two  hundred ninety-two of the executive law, that affects mobility.  If
    12  two or more tenants are eligible for such vacant  apartment,  preference
    13  shall be given to the individual that has resided in the project for the
    14  longest period of time.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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