New York A 2066: Relates to veterans' eligibility for public housing

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A02066 Summary:

BILL NOA02066 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05350

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SPONSORRajkumar

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §156, Pub Hous L

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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.

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BILL NOA02066 

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01/15/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

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 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

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