Bill Text: NY S09557 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 9557 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires public housing authorities with housing complexes containing one hundred or more units to provide at least three meals or meal vouchers and drinking water for all tenants in the affected buildings each day of a disruption in water services that requires a pause of tenant use of water for drinking or cooking lasting over twenty-four hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-14 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09557 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S09557-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9557

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 14, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring  public
          housing  authorities  with housing complexes containing one hundred or
          more units to provide food and drinking water for all tenants  in  the
          affected buildings each day of a water service disruption

          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  229 to read as follows:
     3    §  229.  Water  service  disruption. 1. For public housing authorities
     4  with housing complexes containing one hundred  or  more  units,  in  the
     5  event  of a disruption in water services that requires a pause of tenant
     6  use of water for drinking or cooking lasting over twenty-four hours, the
     7  housing authority shall provide three meals or three meal  vouchers  and
     8  drinking  water  for each resident in the affected buildings each day of
     9  the disruption, including an option for homebound residents  to  receive
    10  meals and water directly.
    11    2. The authority shall notify residents of meal and water availability
    12  through  written  notice  and  in conjunction with all communications to
    13  residents regarding the disruption. Such notice shall include:
    14    a. the location and time meals, meal vouchers and water will be avail-
    15  able to residents each day; and
    16    b. the procedure for homebound individuals to receive meals and  water
    17  directly.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16310-02-2