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T2025-3987
| * | | | | Oversight - Legionnaires’ Disease, Cooling Tower Inspections, and Keeping New Yorkers Safe. | Oversight | | | |
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Int 0166-2024
| * | Amanda Farías | | | Requiring building owners to provide shower hoses and informational materials on Legionnaires’ disease to tenants. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“DOHMH”) to create and post online informational materials on Legionnaires’ disease and to notify owners of residential buildings when a tenant in the building has a confirmed case of Legionnaires’ disease. This bill would also require building owners to provide shower hoses and the DOHMH informational materials to building tenants within 24 hours of notice of a tenant in the building having been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease. | | |
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Int 0434-2024
| * | Pierina Ana Sanchez | | | Building water system maintenance and inspection. | Introduction | This bill would require a large building, a building with a water device, or a building which primarily houses people older than 65 or a building that has multiple housing units and a centralized hot water system, to develop and implement a building water system or water device management program and plan to minimize the growth and transmission of Legionella bacteria in the building’s water system. This bill also lists requirements for system maintenance, inspection and testing, cleaning and disinfection, sample monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting. The bill lays out an enforcement scheme, including DOHMH investigation and civil penalties. The bill additionally requires DOHMH to provide guidance and information sessions to building owners, and requires DOHMH to submit a report. | | |
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Int 1390-2025
| * | Lynn C. Schulman | | | Cooling tower inspections in heat-related emergencies. | Introduction | This bill would amend New York City’s cooling tower inspection requirements by requiring building owners to inspect and test cooling towers for the presence of microbes at least as frequently as every 30 days during periods of the year such cooling towers are in use. The bill further requires that, if a heat-related emergency occurs, such cooling towers shall be inspected and tested on the earlier of either 14 days from the date of the most recent inspection and testing, or 14 days from the first day of a heat-related emergency if such day occurs more than 14 days after the date of most recent inspection and testing. | | |
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