Bill Text: NY S04287 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for preferences under the affordable home ownership development program for service related disabled veterans.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S04287 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S04287-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4287 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 19, 2013 ___________ 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. LBD00159-01-3 S. 4287 2 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 17 FORTY-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 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 27 have become a law.