Senate Bill S2289

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expands the veterans' preference to include veterans who did not serve during a time of war for certain housing

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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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2025-S2289 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §31, Priv Hous Fin L

2025-S2289 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the veterans' preference to include veterans who did not serve during a time of war for Mitchell-Lama housing.

2025-S2289 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2289 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2289
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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 expand-
   ing the veterans' preference to include veterans  who  did  not  serve
   during a time of war for certain housing

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 31 of the private housing  finance
 law,  as  amended by chapter 621 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read
 as follows:
   7. Preference in admission to a project with an open waiting list,  as
 determined by the commissioner or the supervising agency, shall be given
 by  a mutual company or an urban rental company or by the New York state
 housing finance agency when subleasing dwellings  in  projects  of  such
 companies  pursuant  to section forty-four-a of this chapter, to persons
 or surviving spouses of persons who are veterans as such term is defined
 pursuant to section eighty-five of the civil service law, REGARDLESS  OF
 IF  SUCH  VETERAN  SERVED  DURING A TIME OF WAR.   The number of persons
 given preference as a veteran or a surviving spouse of a  veteran  shall
 be published adjacent to the application to be on such waiting list. For
 projects  with  a  closed list, as determined by the commissioner or the
 supervising agency, such preference shall be given upon the  opening  of
 the  waiting list. Notwithstanding the foregoing, persons who are resid-
 ing in a limited-profit housing project shall be  given  first  priority
 for  an  internal  transfer in the project in which they are residing in
 accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner or
 the supervising agency.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05770-01-5

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