Assembly Bill A269

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to excluding income from the employment of children when calculating income for the selection of tenants

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A269 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1652
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §156, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9865, S6054
2019-2020: S3084

2017-A269 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to excluding income from the employment of children when calculating income for the selection of tenants; excludes income from the employment of children under 18 and full-time students over 18 and earnings in excess of $480 per month.

2017-A269 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    269
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JAFFEE, SIMOTAS, SIMON, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored
   by -- M. of A.  COOK, GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing  law,  in  relation  to  income  from
   employment of children
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 156 of  the  public
 housing law, as amended by chapter 21 of the laws of 1982, is amended to
 read as follows:
   a.  for  persons  or  families  of low income whose probable aggregate
 annual income during the period of occupancy does not exceed  six  times
 the  rental  (including  the value or cost to them of heat, light, water
 and cooking fuel) of the dwellings to be furnished such persons or fami-
 lies, except that in the case of persons or families with four  or  more
 dependents,  such  ratio  shall  not exceed seven to one; in calculating
 annual income, social security payments and income received from pension
 funds by any person sixty-two years of age or more shall be excluded  up
 to a total maximum amount of seventy-five dollars per month; INCOME FROM
 EMPLOYMENT  OF  CHILDREN,  INCLUDING  FOSTER  CHILDREN, UNDER THE AGE OF
 EIGHTEEN YEARS AND INCOME FROM EACH FULL-TIME STUDENT EIGHTEEN YEARS  OF
 AGE  OR  OLDER,  EXCLUDING  THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD AND SPOUSE, EARNING IN
 EXCESS OF FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLARS PER MONTH  SHALL  BE  EXCLUDED  IN
 CALCULATING HOUSEHOLD INCOME;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00577-01-7

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