Bill Text: NY A06740 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6740

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes broadband access in the scoring and ranking criteria of the New York State low-income housing tax credit program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-16 - reported referred to ways and means [A06740 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06740-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6740

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to broadband  access
          in the New York state low-income housing tax credit program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 25 of the public housing  law,  as
     2  added  by  section  1  of  part CC of chapter 63 of the laws of 2000, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and  regulations  necessary
     5  to  administer the provisions of this act. To the extent that such rules
     6  and regulations establish project scoring  and  ranking  criteria,  such
     7  scoring and ranking criteria shall include the commitment to use end-to-
     8  end  fiber-optic architecture for the delivery of broadband service as a
     9  preference in the evaluation of project applications.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10310-01-3