STATE OF NEW YORK
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1779
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, TAYLOR, BURDICK -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Housing
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.
LBD04721-01-5
