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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6943
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 6, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the public housing  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  a
          conspicuous memorandum regarding the disruption of vital services
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 402-e of the public housing
     2  law, as added by a chapter of the laws  of  2019,  amending  the  public
     3  housing law relating to requiring a conspicuous memorandum regarding the
     4  disruption  of  vital services, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
     5  S.  6320-A and A. 8019-A, are amended to read as follows:
     6    1. In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York  city
     7  housing  authority's duty to provide heat, water, electricity and eleva-
     8  tor service, the New York city housing authority shall publish  informa-
     9  tion regarding reported disruptions in such services, the length of such
    10  disruptions and the steps taken to restore services. Starting on [Decem-
    11  ber]  May first, two thousand [nineteen] twenty, the New York city hous-
    12  ing authority shall publish such information on  its  website.  For  six
    13  months  after  the  original publication date, the New York city housing
    14  authority shall retain such information on its website.
    15    2. No later than [November] April first, two thousand [nineteen] twen-
    16  ty, the New York city housing authority shall meet with  representatives
    17  of  the  housing part of the New York city civil court, a representative
    18  of public housing tenants from each borough in the city of New York, and
    19  a representative of a legal services provider with experience represent-
    20  ing public housing tenants in the housing part  of  the  New  York  city
    21  civil court, in order to review and comment on the New York city housing
    22  authority's  proposed  additions to its website as described in subdivi-
    23  sion one of this section.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    25  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the public housing law
    26  relating  to requiring a conspicuous memorandum regarding the disruption
    27  of vital services, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  6320-A
    28  and A. 8019-A, takes effect.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13085-04-0