Bill Text: NY A01779 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes broadband access in the scoring and ranking criteria of the New York State low-income housing tax credit program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to housing [A01779 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A01779-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1779 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, TAYLOR, BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to broadband access in the New York state low-income housing tax credit program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 25 of the public housing law, as 2 added by section 1 of part CC of chapter 63 of the laws of 2000, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary 5 to administer the provisions of this act. To the extent that such rules 6 and regulations establish project scoring and ranking criteria, such 7 scoring and ranking criteria shall include the commitment to use end-to- 8 end fiber-optic architecture for the delivery of broadband service as a 9 preference in the evaluation of project applications. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04721-01-5
