A 1873: Requires the New York city housing authority to provide adequate and reliable internet service for all housing authority residents.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1873 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the New York city housing authority to provide adequate and reliable internet service for all housing authority residents The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section 2 402-h to read as follows: 3 § 402-h. NYCHA internet service. The New York city housing authority 4 (NYCHA) shall be required to provide adequate and reliable internet 5 service at all NYCHA residential properties which can be accessed at any 6 time by NYCHA residents. 7 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the public 8 housing law, as amended by chapter 338 of the laws of 2024, is amended 9 to read as follows: 10 (a) In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York city 11 housing authority's duty to provide heat, water, electricity, gas, 12 internet service, where provided and elevator service, the New York city 13 housing authority shall publish information regarding reported 14 disruptions in such services, the length of such disruptions and the 15 steps taken to restore services and shall remedy interruptions of gas 16 service in accordance with subdivision five of this section. Starting on 17 May first, two thousand twenty, the New York city housing authority 18 shall publish such information on its website. For six months after the 19 original publication date, the New York city housing authority shall 20 retain such information on its website. 21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 22 the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the 23 public housing law made by section two of this act shall take effect on 24 the same date and in the same manner as chapter 338 of the laws of 2024, 25 takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04475-01-5