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Assembly Bill A446

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the New York city housing authority and mold remediation

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2025-A446 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5200
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §402, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6238
2015-2016: S3264
2017-2018: S4521
2019-2020: S2140
2021-2022: A6357, S4786
2023-2024: A1661, S4777

2025-A446 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the New York city housing authority and mold remediation; establishes after reporting such authority shall have 15 days to remediate such reported mold.

2025-A446 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    446
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ANDERSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to the New York city
   housing authority and mold remediation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
   12.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, UPON
 THE REPORT BY ANY TENANT OF MOLD IN A DWELLING UNIT IN ANY PROJECT OPER-
 ATED BY THE AUTHORITY, THE AUTHORITY SHALL HAVE FIFTEEN DAYS TO  REMEDI-
 ATE  SAID MOLD. THE AUTHORITY SHALL HAVE SIXTY DAYS FROM THE REMEDIATION
 TO INSPECT THE DWELLING UNIT TO ENSURE MOLD REMOVAL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01948-01-5

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