Bill Text: NY S07794 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7794 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the New York city housing authority to establish occupant protection plans for projects having lead paint.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-26 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S07794 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07794-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7794
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 26, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- 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 directing the New
          York city housing authority to establish an occupant  protection  plan
          for each project constructed during or prior to 1978
          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-d to read as follows:
     3    §  402-d.  Occupant  protection  plans. 1.   The New York city housing
     4  authority shall establish an occupant protection plan for every  project
     5  built  during  or  prior  to  nineteen  hundred  seventy-eight,  and for
     6  projects in which lead paint is otherwise found. The New York city hous-
     7  ing authority shall update each such plan on  an  annual  basis.    Such
     8  plans  shall  require that such projects are re-inspected for lead paint
     9  if they were inspected by such  authority  between  January  first,  two
    10  thousand  twelve  and December thirty-first, two thousand eighteen. Each
    11  occupant protection plan shall include, but not be limited to:
    12    (a) notification to the department of health  and  the  department  of
    13  health  and mental hygiene of the city of New York of any potential lead
    14  or mold exposure;
    15    (b) notification, by mail in their native language, to tenants who are
    16  at risk of exposure to lead paint and mold;
    17    (c) information on how and where to receive free lead screening;
    18    (d) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid expo-
    19  sure; and
    20    (e) provide a schedule of paint testing and a removal schedule.
    21    2. Within three months of the New York city housing authority's estab-
    22  lishing the occupant protection plans, such  authority  shall  post  and
    23  maintain  signs  in conspicuous locations at the affected projects which
    24  shall include, but not be limited to:
    25    (a) information on how and where to receive free lead screening; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14651-02-8

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     1    (b) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid expo-
     2  sure.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.