Assembly Bill A7273

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the New York city housing authority to provide written notice to residents of certain disruptions to water service and to establish certain guidelines regarding the examination of water quality

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Current Bill Status - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A7273 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7456
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §402-e, Pub Hous L

2023-A7273 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the New York city housing authority to provide written notice to residents of disruptions to water services when water is not safe for drinking or cooking; requires the New York city housing authority to establish measures to ensure all contractors and subcontractors who deal with the collection and examining of water samples to comply with federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations regarding the examination of water quality.

2023-A7273 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7273
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the New
   York city housing authority to provide written notice to residents  of
   certain  disruptions to water services and to establish certain guide-
   lines regarding the examination of water quality
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the public housing law,
 as amended by chapter 47 of the laws of 2020,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  (A)  In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York
 city housing authority's duty to provide heat,  water,  electricity  and
 elevator  service,  the  New  York  city housing authority shall publish
 information regarding reported disruptions in such services, the  length
 of such disruptions and the steps taken to restore services. Starting on
 May  first,  two  thousand  twenty,  the New York city housing authority
 shall publish such information on its website. For six months after  the
 original  publication  date,  the  New York city housing authority shall
 retain such information on its website.
   (B) WHEN A PUBLIC UTILITY OR LOCAL, STATE OR  FEDERAL  AGENCY  ADVISES
 THE  NEW  YORK  CITY  HOUSING  AUTHORITY  THAT CERTAIN RESIDENTS OF SUCH
 AUTHORITY SHOULD AVOID THE USE OF WATER FOR DRINKING  OR  COOKING,  SUCH
 AUTHORITY SHALL PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE, IN ELECTRONIC AND PAPER FORM, OF
 SUCH  ADVICE  TO  THE  INDICATED  RESIDENTS AND THE RESIDENT ASSOCIATION
 PRESIDENT OR OTHER FORMALLY RECOGNIZED RESIDENT LEADER FOR THE INDICATED
 DEVELOPMENT AS SOON AS PRACTICAL BUT NO  LATER  THAN  TWENTY-FOUR  HOURS
 AFTER SUCH AUTHORITY HAS RECEIVED SUCH ADVICE.
   §  2.  Section  402-e of the public housing law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11480-01-3
 A. 7273                             2

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