STATE OF NEW YORK
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3969
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 25, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
Security and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to prefer-
ences under the affordable home ownership development program for
service related disabled veterans
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 a
7 service related disabled veteran.
8 For purposes of this section, "service related disabled veteran" shall
9 mean a person (i) who served in the active military, naval, or air
10 service during a time of war as defined in this paragraph, or who was a
11 recipient of the armed forces expeditionary medal, navy expeditionary
12 medal, marine corps expeditionary medal, or global war on terrorism
13 expeditionary medal, and who was discharged or released therefrom under
14 honorable conditions, (ii) has been awarded a disability rating of forty
15 percent or higher from the federal veteran's administration or from the
16 United States department of defense, where that disability was incurred
17 in line of duty in the active military, naval or air service, as docu-
18 mented according to rules and regulations to be promulgated by the divi-
19 sion.
20 For the purposes of this section, "service during time of war" shall
21 mean: (i) The individual in question was a recipient of the armed forces
22 expeditionary medal, the navy expeditionary medal or the marine corps
23 expeditionary medal for participation in operations in Lebanon from June
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 first, nineteen hundred eighty-three to December first, nineteen hundred
2 eighty-seven, in Grenada from October twenty-third, nineteen hundred
3 eighty-three to November twenty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-three, or
4 in Panama from December twentieth, nineteen hundred eighty-nine to Janu-
5 ary thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety, or;
6 (ii) The individual served on active duty for ninety days or more in
7 the armed forces of the United States during any one of the following
8 wars or hostilities:
9 (1) in the Mexican border campaign from the ninth day of May, nineteen
10 hundred sixteen, to the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred seventeen,
11 inclusive;
12 (2) in World War I from the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred
13 seventeen to the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred eighteen,
14 inclusive;
15 (3) in World War II from the seventh day of December, nineteen hundred
16 forty-one to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred forty-
17 six, inclusive;
18 (4) in the Korean hostilities from the twenty-seventh day of June,
19 nineteen hundred fifty to the thirty-first day of January, nineteen
20 hundred fifty-five, inclusive;
21 (5) in the Vietnam conflict from the twenty-second day of December,
22 nineteen hundred sixty-one to the seventh day of May, nineteen hundred
23 seventy-five;
24 (6) in the Persian Gulf conflict from the second day of August, nine-
25 teen hundred ninety to the end of such conflict.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
27 have become a law.
