Bill Text: NY S05350 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to veterans' eligibility for public housing; expands eligibility requirements to include veterans of the recent conflicts; requires granting of a preference for public housing to veterans or families of veterans who have a military service connected disability.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S05350 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S05350-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5350

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. COMRIE, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MARTINEZ, MATTERA, STEC
          -- 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 public housing law, in relation to veterans'  eligi-
          bility for public housing

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 1  of  section
     2  156  of the public housing law, as amended by chapter 606 of the laws of
     3  2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1) have served in the armed forces of the United States for a  period
     5  of  at  least  six months (or any shorter period which terminated due to
     6  death or injury incurred in such service), provided some portion of  the
     7  period  of  service  was between the first of November, nineteen hundred
     8  fifty-five to the seventh day of May, nineteen hundred seventy-five,  or
     9  between  the  fourteenth day of September, two thousand one to the thir-
    10  ty-first day of December, two thousand twenty-four, and
    11    § 2. Section 156 of the public housing law is amended by adding a  new
    12  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    13    8.  An  authority shall grant a preference in the selection of tenants
    14  to veterans  or  families  of  veterans  who  have  a  military  service
    15  connected disability provided that such veterans or families of veterans
    16  otherwise  qualify  for  occupancy  in  such an authority's projects and
    17  provided further that such authority has complied with the provisions of
    18  section 960.206 of title 24 of the code of federal regulations  relating
    19  to such preferences.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04073-01-5