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                                  5135

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
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Introduced  by Sen. McDONALD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
  Community Development

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:

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  3  of  section  1112  of  the
private  housing  finance  law, as amended by chapter 898 of the laws of
1986, is amended to read as follows:
  (a) Serve the lowest income households in the applicable region and is
designed to continue to be affordable to such households for a  substan-
tial  period of time[.] OR SERVE HOUSEHOLDS IN WHICH THE HOME BUYER IS A
SERVICE RELATED DISABLED VETERAN.
  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "SERVICE RELATED DISABLED VETERAN" SHALL
MEAN A PERSON (I) WHO SERVED IN  THE  ACTIVE  MILITARY,  NAVAL,  OR  AIR
SERVICE  DURING A TIME OF WAR AS DEFINED IN THIS PARAGRAPH, OR WHO WAS A
RECIPIENT OF THE ARMED FORCES EXPEDITIONARY  MEDAL,  NAVY  EXPEDITIONARY
MEDAL,  MARINE  CORPS  EXPEDITIONARY  MEDAL,  OR GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM
EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL, AND WHO WAS DISCHARGED OR RELEASED THEREFROM  UNDER
HONORABLE CONDITIONS, (II) HAS BEEN AWARDED A DISABILITY RATING OF FORTY
PERCENT  OR HIGHER FROM THE FEDERAL VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION OR FROM THE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, WHERE THAT DISABILITY WAS  INCURRED
IN  LINE  OF DUTY IN THE ACTIVE MILITARY, NAVAL OR AIR SERVICE, AS DOCU-
MENTED ACCORDING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS TO BE PROMULGATED BY THE DIVI-
SION.
  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "SERVICE DURING TIME OF  WAR"  SHALL
MEAN: (I) THE INDIVIDUAL IN QUESTION WAS A RECIPIENT OF THE ARMED FORCES
EXPEDITIONARY  MEDAL,  THE  NAVY EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL OR THE MARINE CORPS
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.
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FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE TO DECEMBER FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED
EIGHTY-SEVEN, IN GRENADA FROM  OCTOBER  TWENTY-THIRD,  NINETEEN  HUNDRED
EIGHTY-THREE TO NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE, OR
IN PANAMA FROM DECEMBER TWENTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE TO JANU-
ARY THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY, OR;
  (II)  THE  INDIVIDUAL SERVED ON ACTIVE DUTY FOR NINETY DAYS OR MORE IN
THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES DURING ANY ONE  OF  THE  FOLLOWING
WARS OR HOSTILITIES:
  (1) IN THE MEXICAN BORDER CAMPAIGN FROM THE NINTH DAY OF MAY, NINETEEN
HUNDRED  SIXTEEN, TO THE FIFTH DAY OF APRIL, NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN,
INCLUSIVE;
  (2) IN WORLD WAR I FROM THE  SIXTH  DAY  OF  APRIL,  NINETEEN  HUNDRED
SEVENTEEN  TO  THE  ELEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTEEN,
INCLUSIVE;
  (3) IN WORLD WAR II FROM THE SEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED
FORTY-ONE  TO  THE  THIRTY-FIRST  DAY  OF  DECEMBER,  NINETEEN   HUNDRED
FORTY-SIX, INCLUSIVE;
  (4)  IN  THE  KOREAN  HOSTILITIES FROM THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE,
NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY TO THE  THIRTY-FIRST  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  NINETEEN
HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE, INCLUSIVE;
  (5)  IN  THE  VIETNAM CONFLICT FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF DECEMBER,
NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE TO THE SEVENTH DAY OF MAY,  NINETEEN  HUNDRED
SEVENTY-FIVE;
  (6)  IN THE PERSIAN GULF CONFLICT FROM THE SECOND DAY OF AUGUST, NINE-
TEEN HUNDRED NINETY TO THE END OF SUCH CONFLICT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.