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Senate Bill S7794

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Directs the New York city housing authority to establish occupant protection plans for projects having lead paint

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2017-S7794 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10313
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Add §402-d, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S2771, A2032
2021-2022: S3428
2023-2024: S1302
2025-2026: S2323

2017-S7794 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the New York city housing authority to establish occupant protection plans for projects having lead paint.

2017-S7794 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7794 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7794
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 26, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- 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:
 
   Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
 402-d to read as follows:
   §  402-D.  OCCUPANT  PROTECTION  PLANS. 1.   THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING
 AUTHORITY SHALL ESTABLISH AN OCCUPANT PROTECTION PLAN FOR EVERY  PROJECT
 BUILT  DURING  OR  PRIOR  TO  NINETEEN  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-EIGHT,  AND FOR
 PROJECTS IN WHICH LEAD PAINT IS OTHERWISE FOUND. THE NEW YORK CITY HOUS-
 ING AUTHORITY SHALL UPDATE EACH SUCH PLAN ON  AN  ANNUAL  BASIS.    SUCH
 PLANS  SHALL  REQUIRE THAT SUCH PROJECTS ARE RE-INSPECTED FOR LEAD PAINT
 IF THEY WERE INSPECTED BY SUCH  AUTHORITY  BETWEEN  JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO
 THOUSAND  TWELVE  AND DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN. EACH
 OCCUPANT PROTECTION PLAN SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (A) NOTIFICATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH  AND  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
 HEALTH  AND MENTAL HYGIENE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK OF ANY POTENTIAL LEAD
 OR MOLD EXPOSURE;
   (B) NOTIFICATION, BY MAIL IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, TO TENANTS WHO ARE
 AT RISK OF EXPOSURE TO LEAD PAINT AND MOLD;
   (C) INFORMATION ON HOW AND WHERE TO RECEIVE FREE LEAD SCREENING;
   (D) PREVENTION METHODS THAT CAN BE TAKEN BY THE TENANTS TO AVOID EXPO-
 SURE; AND
   (E) PROVIDE A SCHEDULE OF PAINT TESTING AND A REMOVAL SCHEDULE.
   2. WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY'S ESTAB-
 LISHING THE OCCUPANT PROTECTION PLANS, SUCH  AUTHORITY  SHALL  POST  AND
 MAINTAIN  SIGNS  IN CONSPICUOUS LOCATIONS AT THE AFFECTED PROJECTS WHICH
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (A) INFORMATION ON HOW AND WHERE TO RECEIVE FREE LEAD SCREENING; AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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