Bill Text: NY A11152 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 11152 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts the "NYCHA utility accountability act"; requires the NYCHA to provide a rent reduction to tenants who experience a disruption in utility service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-04 - referred to housing [A11152 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11152-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11152

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Anderson) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public housing law, in relation to enacting the
          "NYCHA utility accountability act"

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "NYCHA utility accountability act".
     3    § 2. Section 402-e of the public housing law is amended  by  adding  a
     4  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     5    5.  Where  there is a disruption in the New York city housing authori-
     6  ty's provision of heat,  water,  gas,  or  electricity  service  to  any
     7  tenant,  the  New York city housing authority shall reduce the amount of
     8  rent to be paid by such tenant for the following month by the greater of
     9  either (a) seventy-five dollars per month, on a prorated daily basis for
    10  each day such tenant experienced a disruption of heat,  water,  gas,  or
    11  electricity  service;  or  (b)  the  amount equal to ten percent of such
    12  tenant's prorated daily cost of rent for each day  such  tenant  experi-
    13  enced a disruption of heat, water, gas, or electricity service.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17518-05-0