STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 589--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the division of housing and community renewal to establish a publicly accessible online database of building-wide major capital improvements The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section 2 19-b to read as follows: 3 § 19-b. Major capital improvement database. The commissioner shall 4 publish on the division website a database of building-wide major capi- 5 tal improvements pursuant to the emergency tenant protection act of 6 nineteen seventy-four, the rent stabilization law of nineteen sixty- 7 nine, the emergency housing rent control law, and the local emergency 8 housing rent control act installed by any landlord in every city with a 9 population of more than one million inhabitants. Such database shall 10 include, but not be limited to, an entry that describes the item or 11 repair, including: 12 1. the cost; 13 2. make and model; 14 3. where the item was purchased; 15 4. the name of company or individual conducting the installation; and 16 5. the installation cost. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00923-02-3