S 5541: Includes broadband access in the scoring and ranking criteria of the New York State low-income housing tax credit program.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5541 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 24, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 broadband access in the New York state low-income housing tax credit program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 25 of the public housing law, as 2 added by section 1 of part CC of chapter 63 of the laws of 2000, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary 5 to administer the provisions of this act. To the extent that such rules 6 and regulations establish project scoring and ranking criteria, such 7 scoring and ranking criteria shall include the commitment to use end-to- 8 end fiber-optic architecture for the delivery of broadband service as a 9 preference in the evaluation of project applications. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04721-01-5