Bill Text: NY S00220 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires entities responsible for the provision of vital services to coordinate and work expeditiously to restore service whenever such service is interrupted; includes gas as a vital service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3866B [S00220 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00220-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         220--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. MYRIE, BAILEY, GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing,
          Construction and Community Development -- reported favorably from said
          committee and committed to the  Committee  on  Cities  1  --  reported
          favorably  from  said  committee  and  committed  to  the Committee on
          Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring enti-
          ties responsible for the provision of vital services to coordinate and
          work expeditiously to restore service whenever such service is  inter-
          rupted

          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 and a new
     3  subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
     4    1. In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York  city
     5  housing authority's duty to provide heat, water, electricity, gas, where
     6  provided and elevator service, the New York city housing authority shall
     7  publish information regarding reported disruptions in such services, the
     8  length  of  such disruptions and the steps taken to restore services and
     9  shall remedy interruptions of gas service in accordance with subdivision
    10  five of this section.  Starting on May first, two thousand  twenty,  the
    11  New  York  city  housing authority shall publish such information on its
    12  website. For six months after the original  publication  date,  the  New
    13  York  city  housing  authority  shall  retain  such  information  on its
    14  website.
    15    5. a. The New York city housing authority shall remedy an interruption
    16  of gas service as expeditiously  as  practicable  by  applying  for  any

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01991-02-3
        S. 220--A                           2

     1  permits  necessary to make repairs, as applicable, and coordinating with
     2  agencies and gas corporations on a plan to restore such service.
     3    b. The New York city housing authority shall notify residents affected
     4  by  any  such interruption of the plan to restore such service developed
     5  pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision by:
     6    (i) Communicating such plan to residents affected by such interruption
     7  as well as the resident association president or other  formally  recog-
     8  nized resident leader;
     9    (ii)  Regularly  scheduling  meetings  to update residents affected by
    10  such interruption, as well as  the  resident  association  president  or
    11  other  formally  recognized  resident leader, about the progress made on
    12  such plan; and
    13    (iii) Posting a notice in the lobby of the building affected  by  such
    14  interruption  describing  the  interruption  and  estimating the date on
    15  which service by the gas corporation shall be restored.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.