Senate Bill S2720

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor

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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-S2720 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4818
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §402, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7898, A11658
2011-2012: S4455, A3420
2013-2014: S2184, A1742
2015-2016: S2542, A4232

2017-S2720 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor.

2017-S2720 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2720 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2720
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. HAMILTON, COMRIE, PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to granting tenants,
   with a physically disabling condition that affects their  mobility,  a
   preference in occupying a vacant dwelling unit on a lower floor in the
   same  building  in  projects  operated  by  the  New York city housing
   authority
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE  CONTRARY,  UPON
 THE VACANCY OF A DWELLING UNIT IN ANY PROJECT OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY,
 SUCH VACANT DWELLING UNIT SHALL FIRST BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR OCCUPANCY TO
 ANY  TENANT WITHIN THE SAME PROJECT WHO LIVES ON A HIGHER FLOOR THAN THE
 VACANT DWELLING UNIT, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE VACANT DWELLING  UNIT  MUST
 BE  THE  SAME SIZE OR SMALLER THAN THE UNIT OCCUPIED BY SUCH TENANT, AND
 THE TENANT OR ANY OTHER  LEGAL  OCCUPANT  CURRENTLY  RESIDING  WITH  THE
 TENANT HAS A DISABILITY, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWENTY-ONE OF SECTION
 TWO  HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, THAT AFFECTS MOBILITY.  IF
 TWO OR MORE TENANTS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH VACANT  APARTMENT,  PREFERENCE
 SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS RESIDED IN THE PROJECT FOR THE
 LONGEST PERIOD OF TIME.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00692-01-7

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