Bill Text: NY S05911 | 2023-2024 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S05911 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05911-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5911

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 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.
                                                                   LBD10310-01-3
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