Requires all dwellings in projects located within the state to include braille labeling on all room numbers, elevator buttons, and directional signage in common areas in such dwellings.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6827
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 25, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 braille
labeling in dwellings in public housing projects in the state
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
2 223-c to read as follows:
3 § 223-c. Braille labeling requirement. All dwellings in projects
4 located within the state shall include braille labeling on all room
5 numbers, elevator buttons, and directional signage in common areas in
6 such dwellings.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
8 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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