Bill Text: NY S02323 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the New York city housing authority to establish occupant protection plans for projects having lead paint and post and maintain signs in conspicuous locations at the affected projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S02323 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02323-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2323

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- 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 directing the New
          York  city  housing authority to establish an occupant protection plan
          for each project constructed during or prior to 1978

          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  402-h to read as follows:
     3    § 402-h. Occupant protection plans. 1.   The  New  York  city  housing
     4  authority  shall establish an occupant protection plan for every project
     5  built during  or  prior  to  nineteen  hundred  seventy-eight,  and  for
     6  projects in which lead paint is otherwise found. The New York city hous-
     7  ing  authority  shall  update  each  such plan on an annual basis.  Such
     8  plans shall require that such projects are re-inspected for  lead  paint
     9  if  they  were  inspected  by  such authority between January first, two
    10  thousand fourteen and December thirty-first, two  thousand  twenty-five.
    11  Each occupant protection plan shall include, but not be limited to:
    12    (a)  notification  to  the  department of health and the department of
    13  health and mental hygiene of the city of New York of any potential  lead
    14  or mold exposure;
    15    (b) notification, by mail in their native language, to tenants who are
    16  at risk of exposure to lead paint and mold;
    17    (c) information on how and where to receive free lead screening;
    18    (d) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid expo-
    19  sure; and
    20    (e) provide a schedule of paint testing and a removal schedule.
    21    2. Within three months of the New York city housing authority's estab-
    22  lishing  the  occupant  protection  plans, such authority shall post and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04970-01-5
        S. 2323                             2

     1  maintain signs in conspicuous locations at the affected  projects  which
     2  shall include, but not be limited to:
     3    (a) information on how and where to receive free lead screening; and
     4    (b) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid expo-
     5  sure.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law.