NY State Senate Bill 2023-S581

Senate Bill S581

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires 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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee

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Jan 03, 2024	referred to housing, construction and community development
Jan 05, 2023	referred to housing, construction and community development

2023-S581 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3251
Current Committee:: Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:: Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:: Add §229, Pub Hous L

2023-S581 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-S581 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S581

SPONSOR: HOYLMAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE:

To create a process for ensuring public housing residents are provided
food and water when their cooking and drinking water is disrupted.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the public housing law by adding a new section that
would require public housing authorities with housing complexes contain-
ing one hundred or more units to provide at three meals or meal vouchers
a day and drinking water for all residents of buildings affected by a
disruption lasting longer than 24 hours, and notification requirements

for this program.

Section 2 is the effective date. This act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

When tenants are prevented from drinking or cooking in their building
because of concerns about water contamination, it can be incredibly
disruptive and costly. Instead of cooking at home, tenants are forced to
buy prepared meals and bottled water in order to feed themselves.
Tenants should not have to bear this extra cost while the public housing
authority restores their water. Most recently, Jacob Riis Houses, a
public housing complex in Manhattan, had to bar residents from drinking
and cooking due to possible contamination. While tenants were provided
with bottled drinking water, the nearly 4,000 residents of the complex
were not provided meals and were reliant on donations or paying out of
pocket for every meal. This bill would require public housing authori-
ties with housing complexes containing one hundred or more units to
provide at three meals a day and drinking water for all residents of
buildings affected by a disruption lasting longer than 24 hours.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.9557 of 2021-2022 (Hoylman): Died in Rules

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S581 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    581
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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 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:
 
   Section  1.  The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
 229 to read as follows:
   § 229. WATER SERVICE DISRUPTION. 1.  FOR  PUBLIC  HOUSING  AUTHORITIES
 WITH  HOUSING  COMPLEXES  CONTAINING  ONE  HUNDRED OR MORE UNITS, IN THE
 EVENT OF A DISRUPTION IN WATER SERVICES THAT REQUIRES A PAUSE OF  TENANT
 USE OF WATER FOR DRINKING OR COOKING LASTING OVER TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, THE
 HOUSING  AUTHORITY  SHALL PROVIDE THREE MEALS OR THREE MEAL VOUCHERS AND
 DRINKING WATER FOR EACH RESIDENT IN THE AFFECTED BUILDINGS EACH  DAY  OF
 THE  DISRUPTION,  INCLUDING AN OPTION FOR HOMEBOUND RESIDENTS TO RECEIVE
 MEALS AND WATER DIRECTLY.
   2. THE AUTHORITY SHALL NOTIFY RESIDENTS OF MEAL AND WATER AVAILABILITY
 THROUGH WRITTEN NOTICE AND IN CONJUNCTION  WITH  ALL  COMMUNICATIONS  TO
 RESIDENTS REGARDING THE DISRUPTION. SUCH NOTICE SHALL INCLUDE:
   A. THE LOCATION AND TIME MEALS, MEAL VOUCHERS AND WATER WILL BE AVAIL-
 ABLE TO RESIDENTS EACH DAY; AND
   B.  THE PROCEDURE FOR HOMEBOUND INDIVIDUALS TO RECEIVE MEALS AND WATER
 DIRECTLY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02656-01-3

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