New York Assembly Bill A02066 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2066 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Housing 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