Directs the New York city housing authority to establish occupant protection plans for projects having lead paint and post and maintain signs in conspicuous locations at the affected projects.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1302
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 directing the New
York city housing authority to establish an occupant protection plan
for each project constructed during or prior to 1978
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-g to read as follows:
3 § 402-g. Occupant protection plans. 1. The New York city housing
4 authority shall establish an occupant protection plan for every project
5 built during or prior to nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and for
6 projects in which lead paint is otherwise found. The New York city hous-
7 ing authority shall update each such plan on an annual basis. Such
8 plans shall require that such projects are re-inspected for lead paint
9 if they were inspected by such authority between January first, two
10 thousand fourteen and December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-three.
11 Each occupant protection plan shall include, but not be limited to:
12 (a) notification to the department of health and the department of
13 health and mental hygiene of the city of New York of any potential lead
14 or mold exposure;
15 (b) notification, by mail in their native language, to tenants who are
16 at risk of exposure to lead paint and mold;
17 (c) information on how and where to receive free lead screening;
18 (d) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid expo-
19 sure; and
20 (e) provide a schedule of paint testing and a removal schedule.
21 2. Within three months of the New York city housing authority's estab-
22 lishing the occupant protection plans, such authority shall post and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 maintain signs in conspicuous locations at the affected projects which
2 shall include, but not be limited to:
3 (a) information on how and where to receive free lead screening; and
4 (b) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid expo-
5 sure.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
7 it shall have become a law.
