Bill Text: NY S09240 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all dwellings in projects located within the state to include braille labeling on all room numbers, elevator buttons, and directional signage in common areas in such dwellings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S09240 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09240-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9240

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 7, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 braille
          labeling in dwellings in public housing projects in the state

          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  223-c to read as follows:
     3    §  223-c.  Braille  labeling  requirement.  All  dwellings in projects
     4  located within the state shall include  braille  labeling  on  all  room
     5  numbers,  elevator  buttons,  and directional signage in common areas in
     6  such dwellings.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15355-01-4