Bill Text: NY S04682 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to enacting the "NYCHA HVAC repair act"; provides for the heating and cooling of properties including dwelling units owned by the New York city housing authority through the installation of geothermal or air source heat pumps and for the replacement of lighting on New York city housing authority property with LED bulbs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S04682 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04682-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4682

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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, the public authorities law and
          the energy law, in relation to providing for the heating  and  cooling
          of  properties  including  dwelling  units  owned by the New York city
          housing authority through the installation of geothermal or air source
          heat pumps

          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 HVAC repair act".
     3    § 2. The public housing law is amended by adding a new  section  402-g
     4  to read as follows:
     5    §  402-g. NYCHA HVAC repair. 1. The New York city housing authority is
     6  authorized and directed to permit the New York state energy research and
     7  development authority to retrofit New York city housing authority  resi-
     8  dential properties for the installation of geothermal or air source heat
     9  pumps  in  dwelling units owned or operated by the New York city housing
    10  authority, completely replacing all oil or natural  gas  fired  heating,
    11  hot water and other combustion units.
    12    2.  The  New York city housing authority is authorized and directed to
    13  permit the New York state energy research and development  authority  to
    14  replace all compact fluorescent, fluorescent, incandescent, or arc vapor
    15  lamps  in  properties  owned  or  operated  by the New York city housing
    16  authority with light-emitting diode (LED)  bulbs  if  lighting  has  not
    17  already  been  replaced,  with the goal of replacing all lighting in New
    18  York city housing authority properties with high efficiency bulbs.
    19    § 3. The public authorities law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
    20  1879-a to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06006-01-3
        S. 4682                             2

     1    §  1879-a.  Revolving  loan for NYCHA HVAC repair. 1. The authority is
     2  hereby authorized and directed to establish a revolving loan account  in
     3  order to retrofit New York city housing authority residential properties
     4  for  the installation of geothermal or air source heat pumps in dwelling
     5  units  owned or operated by NYCHA pursuant to subdivision one of section
     6  four hundred two-g of the public housing law. Such loan shall be  funded
     7  from  moneys made available pursuant to appropriations by the authority,
     8  funds of the regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI), and other  funds
     9  available to the authority including but not limited to the clean energy
    10  fund.
    11    2.  The  authority  is  authorized and directed to replace all compact
    12  fluorescent, fluorescent, incandescent, or arc vapor lamps in properties
    13  owned or operated by the New York city housing authority with  light-em-
    14  itting  diode  (LED)  bulbs  pursuant to subdivision two of section four
    15  hundred two-g of the public housing law.
    16    § 4. Section 6-104 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi-
    17  vision 6 to read as follows:
    18    6. The state energy plan  shall  include  provisions  for  allowing  a
    19  surcharge  of  up  to two percent on energy bills, for the New York city
    20  housing authority to provide funds or repay loans to the New York  state
    21  energy research and development authority for the repair of all New York
    22  city housing authority heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems
    23  with  geothermal  heating  and cooling, and replacement of New York city
    24  housing authority lighting with light-emitting diode bulbs, as described
    25  in section four hundred two-g of the  public  housing  law  and  section
    26  eighteen hundred seventy-nine-a of the public authorities law.
    27    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.