Enacts the "NYCHA utility accountability act"; requires the NYCHA to provide a rent reduction to tenants who experience a disruption in utility service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1603
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, BENJAMIN, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, SALAZAR,
SEPULVEDA, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print-
ed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development
AN ACT
to amend the public housing law, in relation to enacting the "NYCHA
utility accountability act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "NYCHA utility accountability act".
3 § 2. Section 402-e of the public housing law is amended by adding a
4 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
5 5. Where there is a disruption in the New York city housing authori-
6 ty's provision of heat, water, gas, or electricity service to any
7 tenant, the New York city housing authority shall reduce the amount of
8 rent to be paid by such tenant for the following month by the greater of
9 either (a) seventy-five dollars per month, on a prorated daily basis for
10 each day such tenant experienced a disruption of heat, water, gas, or
11 electricity service; or (b) the amount equal to ten percent of such
12 tenant's prorated daily cost of rent for each day such tenant experi-
13 enced a disruption of heat, water, gas, or electricity service.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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