What's happening
This bill requires the New York City Housing Authority to create and annually update occupant protection plans for older housing projects, focusing on lead and mold exposure prevention and tenant notification.
Why it matters
Targets older and higher-risk buildings. By focusing on NYCHA projects built before 1978 and any with detected lead paint, the bill ensures that the highest-risk housing—where lead and mold hazards are most likely—is subject to stricter oversight and recurring safety planning.
Mandates regular, proactive safety reviews. Annual updates and required re-inspections for buildings previously checked between 2012 and 2019 mean that lead and mold hazards cannot be ignored over time and that past inspections will be revalidated under current best practices.
Improves tenant awareness and empowerment. Required notifications (in tenants’ native languages) and posted signs provide residents with actionable information about risks, free screening resources, and prevention methods, helping tenants protect themselves and their families.
Involves public health agencies. By mandating notification to both city and state health departments about potential hazards, the bill promotes better coordination and oversight, possibly leading to faster intervention and more comprehensive public health responses.
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Protect Tenants from Lead Paint
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- Referred to housing
- Referred to housing
Companion bill
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Protect Tenants from Lead Paint
In Senate Committee · Housing, Construction And Community Development · Sponsor Leroy Comrie
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2032
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, D'URSO, DICKENS, JAFFEE, ARROYO, TAYLOR, COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section 402-e to read as follows:
§ 402-e. Occupant protection plans. 1. The New York city housing authority shall establish an occupant protection plan for every project built during or prior to nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and for projects in which lead paint is otherwise found. The New York city housing authority shall update each such plan on an annual basis. Such plans shall require that such projects are re-inspected for lead paint if they were inspected by such authority between January first, two thousand twelve and December thirty-first, two thousand nineteen. Each occupant protection plan shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) notification to the department of health and the department of health and mental hygiene of the city of New York of any potential lead or mold exposure;
(b) notification, by mail in their native language, to tenants who are at risk of exposure to lead paint and mold;
(c) information on how and where to receive free lead screening;
(d) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid exposure; and
(e) provide a schedule of paint testing and a removal schedule.
2. Within three months of the New York city housing authority's establishing the occupant protection plans, such authority shall post and maintain signs in conspicuous locations at the affected projects which shall include, but not be limited to:
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(a) information on how and where to receive free lead screening; and
(b) prevention methods that can be taken by the tenants to avoid exposure.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
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