A 10604: Relates to enacting the "NYCHA HVAC repair act"; provides for the heating and cooling of properties including dwelling units owned by the New York city housing authority through the installation of geothermal or air source heat pumps and for the replacement of lighting on New York city housing authority property with LED bulbs.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10604  IN ASSEMBLY March 13, 2026 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Housing AN ACT to amend the public housing law, the public authorities law and the energy law, in relation to providing for the heating and cooling of properties including dwelling units owned by the New York city housing authority through the installation of geothermal or air source heat pumps 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 HVAC repair act". 3 § 2. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section 402-i 4 to read as follows: 5 § 402-i. NYCHA HVAC repair. 1. The New York city housing authority is 6 authorized and directed to permit the New York state energy research and 7 development authority to retrofit New York city housing authority resi- 8 dential properties for the installation of geothermal or air source heat 9 pumps in dwelling units owned or operated by the New York city housing 10 authority, completely replacing all oil or natural gas fired heating, 11 hot water and other combustion units. 12 2. The New York city housing authority is authorized and directed to 13 permit the New York state energy research and development authority to 14 replace all compact fluorescent, fluorescent, incandescent, or arc vapor 15 lamps in properties owned or operated by the New York city housing 16 authority with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs if lighting has not 17 already been replaced, with the goal of replacing all lighting in New 18 York city housing authority properties with high efficiency bulbs. 19 § 3. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 20 1879-a to read as follows: 21 § 1879-a. Revolving loan for NYCHA HVAC repair. 1. The authority is 22 hereby authorized and directed to establish a revolving loan account in 23 order to retrofit New York city housing authority residential properties 24 for the installation of geothermal or air source heat pumps in dwelling 25 units owned or operated by NYCHA pursuant to subdivision one of section EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06044-03-6 
 A. 10604 2 1 four hundred two-i of the public housing law. Such loan shall be funded 2 from moneys made available pursuant to appropriations by the authority, 3 funds of the regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI), and other funds 4 available to the authority including but not limited to the clean energy 5 fund. 6 2. The authority is authorized and directed to replace all compact 7 fluorescent, fluorescent, incandescent, or arc vapor lamps in properties 8 owned or operated by the New York city housing authority with light-em- 9 itting diode (LED) bulbs pursuant to subdivision two of section four 10 hundred two-i of the public housing law. 11 § 4. Section 6-104 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi- 12 vision 6 to read as follows: 13 6. The state energy plan shall include provisions for allowing a 14 surcharge of up to two percent on energy bills, for the New York city 15 housing authority to provide funds or repay loans to the New York state 16 energy research and development authority for the repair of all New York 17 city housing authority heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems 18 with geothermal heating and cooling, and replacement of New York city 19 housing authority lighting with light-emitting diode bulbs, as described 20 in section four hundred two-i of the public housing law and section 21 eighteen hundred seventy-nine-a of the public authorities law. 22 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.