S 2323: Directs the New York city housing authority to establish occupant protection plans for projects having lead paint and post and maintain signs in conspicuous locations at the affected projects.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2323 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- 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: 1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section 2 402-h to read as follows: 3 § 402-h. Occupant protection plans. 1. The New York city housing 4 authority shall establish an occupant protection plan for every project 5 built during or prior to nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and for 6 projects in which lead paint is otherwise found. The New York city hous- 7 ing authority shall update each such plan on an annual basis. Such 8 plans shall require that such projects are re-inspected for lead paint 9 if they were inspected by such authority between January first, two 10 thousand fourteen and December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five. 11 Each occupant protection plan shall include, but not be limited to: 12 (a) notification to the department of health and the department of 13 health and mental hygiene of the city of New York of any potential lead 14 or mold exposure; 15 (b) notification, by mail in their native language, to tenants who are 16 at risk of exposure to lead paint and mold; 17 (c) information on how and where to receive free lead screening; 18 (d) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid expo- 19 sure; and 20 (e) provide a schedule of paint testing and a removal schedule. 21 2. Within three months of the New York city housing authority's estab- 22 lishing the occupant protection plans, such authority shall post and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04970-01-5 
 S. 2323 2 1 maintain signs in conspicuous locations at the affected projects which 2 shall include, but not be limited to: 3 (a) information on how and where to receive free lead screening; and 4 (b) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid expo- 5 sure. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 7 it shall have become a law.