Bill Text: NY S00581 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S00581 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00581-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           581

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     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:

     1    Section  1.  The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
     2  229 to read as follows:
     3    § 229. Water service disruption. 1.  For  public  housing  authorities
     4  with  housing  complexes  containing  one  hundred or more units, in the
     5  event of a disruption in water services that requires a pause of  tenant
     6  use of water for drinking or cooking lasting over twenty-four hours, the
     7  housing  authority  shall provide three meals or three meal vouchers and
     8  drinking water for each resident in the affected buildings each  day  of
     9  the  disruption,  including an option for homebound residents to receive
    10  meals and water directly.
    11    2. The authority shall notify residents of meal and water availability
    12  through written notice and in conjunction  with  all  communications  to
    13  residents regarding the disruption. Such notice shall include:
    14    a. the location and time meals, meal vouchers and water will be avail-
    15  able to residents each day; and
    16    b.  the procedure for homebound individuals to receive meals and water
    17  directly.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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