Bill Text: NY S00546 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 546

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts the "NYCHA utility accountability act"; requires the NYCHA to provide a rent reduction to tenants who experience a disruption in utility service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S00546 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           546

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, RAMOS, SALAZAR, SEPULVE-
          DA, STAVISKY -- 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  enacting  the
          "NYCHA utility accountability act"

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "NYCHA utility accountability act".
     3    §  2.  Section  402-e of the public housing law is amended by adding a
     4  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     5    5. Where there is a disruption in the New York city  housing  authori-
     6  ty's  provision  of  heat,  water,  gas,  or  electricity service to any
     7  tenant, the New York city housing authority shall, at a minimum,  reduce
     8  the  amount of rent to be paid by such tenant for the following month by
     9  the greater of either (a) seventy-five dollars per month, on a  prorated
    10  daily  basis  for each day such tenant experienced a disruption of heat,
    11  water, gas, or electricity service; or  (b)  the  amount  equal  to  ten
    12  percent  of  such tenant's prorated daily cost of rent for each day such
    13  tenant experienced a disruption of  heat,  water,  gas,  or  electricity
    14  service.
    15    § 3. 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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