STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7273

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 16, 2023
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        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 requiring the New
          York city housing authority to provide written notice to residents  of
          certain  disruptions to water services and to establish certain guide-
          lines regarding the examination of water quality

          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 402-e of the public housing law,
     2  as amended by chapter 47 of the laws of 2020,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  (a)  In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York
     5  city housing authority's duty to provide heat,  water,  electricity  and
     6  elevator  service,  the  New  York  city housing authority shall publish
     7  information regarding reported disruptions in such services, the  length
     8  of such disruptions and the steps taken to restore services. Starting on
     9  May  first,  two  thousand  twenty,  the New York city housing authority
    10  shall publish such information on its website. For six months after  the
    11  original  publication  date,  the  New York city housing authority shall
    12  retain such information on its website.
    13    (b) When a public utility or local, state or  federal  agency  advises
    14  the  New  York  city  housing  authority  that certain residents of such
    15  authority should avoid the use of water for drinking  or  cooking,  such
    16  authority shall provide written notice, in electronic and paper form, of
    17  such  advice  to  the  indicated  residents and the resident association
    18  president or other formally recognized resident leader for the indicated
    19  development as soon as practical but no  later  than  twenty-four  hours
    20  after such authority has received such advice.
    21    §  2.  Section  402-e of the public housing law is amended by adding a
    22  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    1-a. The New York city housing authority shall  establish  appropriate
     2  measures,  procedures, and guidelines, such as contract requirements and
     3  enforcement mechanisms, to  ensure  that  all  of  its  contractors  and
     4  subcontractors,  when collecting or examining water samples on behalf of
     5  such  authority,  comply with all federal, state, and local laws, rules,
     6  and regulations applicable to such collection or examination,  including
     7  the provisions of section five hundred two of the public health law.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.