Bill Text: NY S06320 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a conspicuous memorandum regarding the disruption of vital services for residents of the New York city housing authority detailing a process and timeframe such residents can report such disruption for inspection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-13 - APPROVAL MEMO.43 [S06320 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06320-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6320--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 5, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  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 a
          conspicuous memorandum regarding the disruption of vital services

          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-e to read as follows:
     3    § 402-e. Disruption of vital services. 1. In order to  ensure  compli-
     4  ance  and  enforcement  of the New York city housing authority's duty to
     5  provide heat, water, electricity and elevator service, the New York city
     6  housing  authority  shall   publish   information   regarding   reported
     7  disruptions  in  such  services,  the length of such disruptions and the
     8  steps taken to restore services. Starting on December first,  two  thou-
     9  sand  nineteen,  the  New York city housing authority shall publish such
    10  information on its website. For six months after the  original  publica-
    11  tion  date, the New York city housing authority shall retain such infor-
    12  mation on its website.
    13    2. No later than November first, two thousand nineteen, the  New  York
    14  city  housing  authority  shall meet with representatives of the housing
    15  part of the New York city civil court, a representative of public  hous-
    16  ing  tenants  from each borough in the city of New York, and a represen-
    17  tative of a legal services provider with experience representing  public
    18  housing tenants in the housing part of the New York city civil court, in
    19  order  to  review  and  comment on the New York city housing authority's
    20  proposed additions to its website as described  in  subdivision  one  of
    21  this section.
    22    3.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall be deemed to limit or modify the
    23  manner in which a tenant may report unscheduled interruption in services

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13085-03-9
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     1  to their particular unit when not associated with a broader building  or
     2  development unscheduled interruption of services, or to limit the appli-
     3  cability  of  the  warranty  of  habitability  to  New York city housing
     4  authority  apartments  or  to  limit  the authority of the New York city
     5  council to legislate in the area of  housing  code  violations  or  with
     6  respect  to  the  New  York  city department of housing preservation and
     7  development.
     8    4. Nothing in this section shall be deemed  to  limit  or  modify  the
     9  obligation  of the department of housing preservation and development to
    10  inspect and verify the existence of conditions of all kinds in  the  New
    11  York city housing authority.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.