S8688 • 2025

Requires notification of residents who are potentially affected by a serious health threat to their water system

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Cordell Cleare
Last action: 2026-06-04
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires notification of residents who are potentially affected by a serious health threat to their water system

Requires notification of residents who are potentially affected by a serious health threat to their water system Requires notification of residents who are potentially affected by a serious health threat to their water system within 24 hours of receiving investigation results.

What This Bill Does

Requires notification of residents who are potentially affected by a serious health threat to their water system Requires notification of residents who are potentially affected by a serious health threat to their water system within 24 hours of receiving investigation results.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2026-06-04 Assembly
REFERRED TO CITIES
2026-06-03 Senate
COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-06-03 Senate
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1638
2026-06-03 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-06-03 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-26 Senate
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CITIES 1
2026-05-26 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 8688A
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO CITIES 1

Official Summary Text

Requires notification of residents who are potentially affected by a serious health threat to their water system
Requires notification of residents who are potentially affected by a serious health threat to their water system within 24 hours of receiving investigation results.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8688

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     January 7, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  requiring  notification of residents who are potentially
          affected by a serious health threat to their water system

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1. Section 17-194.1 of the administrative code of the city of
     2  New York is amended by adding a new subdivision n to read as follows:
     3    N. NOTICE REQUIREMENTS. IN ALL CASES WHERE THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTI-
     4  GATION CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION E OF THIS  SECTION  INDICATE  A
     5  SERIOUS  HEALTH  THREAT,  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  NOTIFY ALL POTENTIALLY
     6  AFFECTED RESIDENTS WITHIN 24 HOURS,  INCLUDING  ALL  ADJACENT  BUILDINGS
     7  THAT SHARE THE SAME UNDERLYING WATER SYSTEM.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14373-01-6