Assembly Bill A1873

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the New York city housing authority to provide adequate and reliable internet service for all housing authority residents

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A1873 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Add §402-h, amd §402-e, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A11039
2021-2022: A3742
2023-2024: A4715

2025-A1873 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the New York city housing authority to provide adequate and reliable internet service for all housing authority residents.

2025-A1873 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1873
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  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 adequate and reliable  internet
   service for all housing authority residents

   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-h to read as follows:
   §  402-H.  NYCHA INTERNET SERVICE. THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY
 (NYCHA) SHALL BE REQUIRED TO  PROVIDE  ADEQUATE  AND  RELIABLE  INTERNET
 SERVICE AT ALL NYCHA RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES WHICH CAN BE ACCESSED AT ANY
 TIME BY NYCHA RESIDENTS.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the public
 housing law, as amended by chapter 338 of the laws of 2024,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (a) In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York city
 housing  authority's  duty  to  provide  heat,  water, electricity, gas,
 INTERNET SERVICE, where provided 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 and shall remedy  interruptions  of  gas
 service in accordance with subdivision five of this section. 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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the
 public  housing law made by section two of this act shall take effect on
 the same date and in the same manner as chapter 338 of the laws of 2024,
 takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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