Bill Text: NY S00220 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires entities responsible for the provision of vital services to coordinate and work expeditiously to restore service whenever such service is interrupted; includes gas as a vital service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3866B [S00220 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00220-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         220--B
            Cal. No. 1236

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MYRIE, BAILEY, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON,
          SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
          to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Communi-
          ty Development -- reported favorably from said committee and committed
          to the Committee on Cities 1 -- reported favorably from said committee
          and  committed  to  the  Committee on Finance -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
          Community  Development  in  accordance  with  Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second
          report,  ordered  to  a  third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to  requiring  enti-
          ties responsible for the provision of vital services to coordinate and
          work  expeditiously to restore service whenever such service is inter-
          rupted

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the
     2  public housing law, as amended by chapter 645 of the laws  of  2023,  is
     3  amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
     4    (a) In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York city
     5  housing authority's duty to provide heat, water, electricity, gas, where
     6  provided and elevator service, the New York city housing authority shall
     7  publish information regarding reported disruptions in such services, the
     8  length  of  such disruptions and the steps taken to restore services and
     9  shall remedy interruptions of gas service in accordance with subdivision
    10  five of this section. Starting on May first, two  thousand  twenty,  the
    11  New  York  city  housing authority shall publish such information on its
    12  website. For six months after the original  publication  date,  the  New

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  York  city  housing  authority  shall  retain  such  information  on its
     2  website.
     3    5.  (a)  The  New  York  city housing authority shall remedy an inter-
     4  ruption of gas service as expeditiously as practicable by  applying  for
     5  any  permits  necessary to make repairs, as applicable, and coordinating
     6  with agencies and gas corporations on a plan to restore such service.
     7    (b) The  New  York  city  housing  authority  shall  notify  residents
     8  affected  by  any  such interruption of the plan to restore such service
     9  developed pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision by:
    10    (i) Communicating such plan to residents affected by such interruption
    11  as well as the resident association president or other  formally  recog-
    12  nized resident leader;
    13    (ii)  Regularly  scheduling  meetings  to update residents affected by
    14  such interruption, as well as  the  resident  association  president  or
    15  other  formally  recognized  resident leader, about the progress made on
    16  such plan; and
    17    (iii) Posting a notice in the lobby of the building affected  by  such
    18  interruption  describing  the  interruption  and  estimating the date on
    19  which service by the gas corporation shall be restored.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.