Establishes the Adirondack park affordable housing task force; requires such task force to conduct a comprehensive review of affordable housing issues within the Adirondack park and to make recommendations for addressing such issues.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9666
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. CASHMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Housing
AN ACT in relation to establishing the Adirondack park affordable hous-
ing task force; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Adirondack
2 park affordable housing act".
3 § 2. 1. There is hereby established an Adirondack park affordable
4 housing task force, hereinafter referred to as the "task force", to
5 conduct a comprehensive review of affordable housing issues within the
6 Adirondack park and to make recommendations for addressing those issues.
7 The task force shall consist of 27 members which shall include: the
8 commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal or their
9 designee; the commissioner of labor or their designee; the executive
10 director of the Adirondack park agency or their designee; one represen-
11 tative from each county which contains a part of the Adirondack park,
12 appointed by such counties' legislature or board of supervisors; the
13 president of the Adirondack community housing trust or their designee;
14 and ten other members to be appointed by the governor as follows: two
15 upon the recommendation of the temporary president of the senate; two
16 upon the recommendation of the speaker of the assembly; one upon the
17 recommendation of the minority leader of the senate; one upon the recom-
18 mendation of the minority leader of the assembly; and four without
19 recommendation from any other person.
20 2. Task force members shall receive no compensation for their services
21 but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in
22 the performance of their duties, to the extent funds are appropriated
23 for such purpose. The commissioner of the division of housing and commu-
24 nity renewal, or their designee, and the executive director of the
25 Adirondack park agency, or their designee, shall serve as joint chairs
26 of the task force. A majority of the members of the task force shall
27 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business or the exercise of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 any power or function of the task force. Any vacancies on the task force
2 shall be filled in the manner provided for in the initial appointment.
3 3. The task force shall be authorized to hold public hearings and
4 meetings, and to consult with any organization, educational institution,
5 or government entity or person, to enable it to accomplish its duties.
6 To effectuate the purposes of this act, the task force may request and
7 shall receive from any department, division, board, bureau, commission
8 or other agency of the state or any state public authority such assist-
9 ance, information and data as will enable the task force to properly
10 carry out its powers and duties hereunder.
11 4. The task force shall undertake a review and assessment of afforda-
12 ble housing within the Adirondack park, including, but not limited to:
13 the past, current and projected future availability of affordable hous-
14 ing within the park; the factors causing or contributing to the lack of
15 affordable housing in the park; and proposed legislative, policy or
16 other measures that can be implemented to increase the availability of
17 affordable housing in the park.
18 5. The task force shall prepare and submit to the governor, the tempo-
19 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of
20 the senate committee on housing, construction and community development
21 and the chair of the assembly committee on housing, on or before January
22 1, 2029, a report containing:
23 (a) a definition of what constitutes affordable housing within the
24 Adirondack park;
25 (b) the past, current and projected future availability of affordable
26 housing within each county, town, village, hamlet and city in the
27 Adirondack park;
28 (c) the factors causing or contributing to a lack of affordable hous-
29 ing within the Adirondack park;
30 (d) recommendations for affordable housing targets for communities in
31 the Adirondack park; and
32 (e) recommendations for legislative, policy or other measures that can
33 be implemented by state or local government to increase the availability
34 of affordable housing in the Adirondack park and the achievement of the
35 affordable housing targets in paragraph (d) of this subdivision.
36 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
37 deemed repealed December 31, 2029.
