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                                   2032
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, D'URSO, DICKENS, JAFFEE, ARROYO, TAYLOR,
   COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
 402-e to read as follows:
   §  402-E.  OCCUPANT  PROTECTION  PLANS. 1.   THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING
 AUTHORITY SHALL ESTABLISH AN OCCUPANT PROTECTION PLAN FOR EVERY  PROJECT
 BUILT  DURING  OR  PRIOR  TO  NINETEEN  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-EIGHT,  AND FOR
 PROJECTS IN WHICH LEAD PAINT IS OTHERWISE FOUND. THE NEW YORK CITY HOUS-
 ING AUTHORITY SHALL UPDATE EACH SUCH PLAN ON  AN  ANNUAL  BASIS.    SUCH
 PLANS  SHALL  REQUIRE THAT SUCH PROJECTS ARE RE-INSPECTED FOR LEAD PAINT
 IF THEY WERE INSPECTED BY SUCH  AUTHORITY  BETWEEN  JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO
 THOUSAND  TWELVE  AND DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN. EACH
 OCCUPANT PROTECTION PLAN SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (A) NOTIFICATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH  AND  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
 HEALTH  AND MENTAL HYGIENE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK OF ANY POTENTIAL LEAD
 OR MOLD EXPOSURE;
   (B) NOTIFICATION, BY MAIL IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, TO TENANTS WHO ARE
 AT RISK OF EXPOSURE TO LEAD PAINT AND MOLD;
   (C) INFORMATION ON HOW AND WHERE TO RECEIVE FREE LEAD SCREENING;
   (D) PREVENTION METHODS THAT CAN BE TAKEN BY THE TENANTS TO AVOID EXPO-
 SURE; AND
   (E) PROVIDE A SCHEDULE OF PAINT TESTING AND A REMOVAL SCHEDULE.
   2. WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY'S ESTAB-
 LISHING THE OCCUPANT PROTECTION PLANS, SUCH  AUTHORITY  SHALL  POST  AND
 MAINTAIN  SIGNS  IN CONSPICUOUS LOCATIONS AT THE AFFECTED PROJECTS WHICH
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   (A) INFORMATION ON HOW AND WHERE TO RECEIVE FREE LEAD SCREENING; AND
   (B) PREVENTION METHODS THAT CAN BE TAKEN BY THE TENANTS TO AVOID EXPO-
 SURE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.