Relates to clarifying that reasonable accommodation to enable a person with a disability to use and enjoy a dwelling includes the use of an animal to alleviate the symptoms or effects of a disability.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6172
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- (at request of the Division of Human
Rights) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to clarifying that
reasonable accommodation to enable a person with a disability to use
and enjoy a dwelling includes the use of an animal to alleviate the
symptoms or effects of a disability
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (d) of subdivision 2-a of
2 section 296 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws
3 of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
4 (2) To refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies,
5 practices, or services, when such accommodations may be necessary to
6 afford a person with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy a
7 dwelling, including the use of an animal as a reasonable accommodation
8 to alleviate symptoms or effects of a disability, and including reason-
9 able modification to common use portions of the dwelling, or
10 § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision 18 of section 296 of the executive
11 law, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
12 as follows:
13 (2) To refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies,
14 practices, or services, when such accommodations may be necessary to
15 afford said person with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy
16 a dwelling, including the use of an animal as a reasonable accommodation
17 to alleviate symptoms or effects of a disability, and including reason-
18 able modification to common use portions of the dwelling, or
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09281-01-9
