Bill Text: NY S03098 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York city housing authority to provide adequate and reliable internet service for all housing authority residents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S03098 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03098-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3098

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community Development

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the New
          York  city housing authority to provide adequate and reliable internet
          service for all housing authority residents

          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  402-g to read as follows:
     3    § 402-g. NYCHA internet service. The New York city  housing  authority
     4  (NYCHA)  shall  be  required  to  provide adequate and reliable internet
     5  service at all NYCHA residential properties which can be accessed at any
     6  time by NYCHA residents.
     7    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 402-e of  the  public  housing  law,  as
     8  amended  by  chapter  47  of  the  laws  of  2020, is amended to read as
     9  follows:
    10    1. In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York  city
    11  housing  authority's  duty to provide heat, water, electricity, internet
    12  service and elevator service, the New York city housing authority  shall
    13  publish information regarding reported disruptions in such services, the
    14  length  of  such  disruptions  and  the steps taken to restore services.
    15  Starting on May first, two thousand twenty, the New  York  city  housing
    16  authority  shall publish such information on its website. For six months
    17  after the original publication date, the New York city housing authority
    18  shall retain such information on its website.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


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