---
type: "Bill"
title: "Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor"
description: "Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 2720"
citation: "New York S 2720 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["HAMILTON"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-12-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af80b606-32f5-4c8a-9863-3ad74c095c81"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S2720"
source_hash: "c266ce6ab79c2b97ede9278df3e07f6fee605d1e1f5a044a2c2ce2e828a26acd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 2720 (2017-2018) — Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor

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

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S2720 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2720&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S2720 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S2720)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **135–5** (pass) · lower
- Housing, Construction And Community Development Vote — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **58–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- HAMILTON — primary (person)
- COMRIE — cosponsor (person)
- PERALTA — cosponsor (person)
- PERSAUD — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-17** REFERRED TO CITIES `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-27** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** 1ST REPORT CAL.415
- **2017-03-20** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2017-03-21** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2017-04-26** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-04-26** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-04-26** REFERRED TO HOUSING `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-02** SUBSTITUTED FOR A4818
- **2017-05-02** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.212
- **2017-05-22** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-05-22** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-12-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-12-18** SIGNED CHAP.484 `executive-signature`
- **2017-12-18** APPROVAL MEMO.51

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af80b606-32f5-4c8a-9863-3ad74c095c81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).