STATE OF NEW YORK
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1873
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the New
York city housing authority to provide adequate and reliable internet
service for all housing authority residents
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
2 402-h to read as follows:
3 § 402-h. NYCHA internet service. The New York city housing authority
4 (NYCHA) shall be required to provide adequate and reliable internet
5 service at all NYCHA residential properties which can be accessed at any
6 time by NYCHA residents.
7 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the public
8 housing law, as amended by chapter 338 of the laws of 2024, is amended
9 to read as follows:
10 (a) In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York city
11 housing authority's duty to provide heat, water, electricity, gas,
12 internet service, where provided and elevator service, the New York city
13 housing authority shall publish information regarding reported
14 disruptions in such services, the length of such disruptions and the
15 steps taken to restore services and shall remedy interruptions of gas
16 service in accordance with subdivision five of this section. Starting on
17 May first, two thousand twenty, the New York city housing authority
18 shall publish such information on its website. For six months after the
19 original publication date, the New York city housing authority shall
20 retain such information on its website.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
22 the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the
23 public housing law made by section two of this act shall take effect on
24 the same date and in the same manner as chapter 338 of the laws of 2024,
25 takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04475-01-5
