Senate bill · S6228 (2025-26)
Establishes the New York state lead-safe renovation, repair and painting act
New York State Senate
Same as A2749, the matching bill in the Assembly.
Summary
Establishes the "New York state lead-safe renovation, repair and painting act"; establishes standards for lead-safe renovation, repair and painting of residential properties; requires documentation of compliance with such standards.
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Amends the Labor Law.
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Purpose, from the sponsor's memo
Section 1. Amends the labor law by adding a new article 31-A. 925. Title: New York State Lead-Safe Renovation, Repair and Painting Act. 926. Legislative findings: The legislature hereby finds and declares that lead poisoning of children persists as one of the most prevalent and preventable environmental diseases in New York. 927. Definitions: Lead-based paint, in part means paint or other similar surface coating material containing 1.0 milligrams of lead per square centimeter or greater. Lead dust clearance, in part means mass-per-area concentrations of lead less than 5 micrograms of lead per square foot on floors and less than 40 micrograms per square foot on interior window- sills. 928. Residential property renovation: The commissioner shall adopt regu- lations, sufficient to satisfy the requirements of 40 C.F.R. 745.326 or successor regulation, governing a) pre-renovation education programs, procedures and requirements for the distribution of lead hazard informa- tion to owners and occupants of target housing and child-occupied facil- ities before renovations for compensation. Section 2. Paragraphs h and i of subdivision 1 of section 381 of the Executive Law, as added by chapter 560 of the laws of 2010, are amended and a new paragraph j is added to read as follows: procedures requiring the documentation of compliance with the regulations adopted pursuant to section 928 of the labor law as a condition to issuance of a construction permit. Section 3. Paragraphs i and j of subdivision 1 of section 381 of the executive law, paragraph i as amended and paragraph j as added by section 3 of part T of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, are amended and a new paragraph k is added to read as follows: procedures requiring the documentation of compliance with the regulations adopted pursuant to section 928 of the labor law as a condition to issuance of a construction permit.
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Where it stands
Passed one of the two chambers; it still needs the other.
- Introduced
- In committee
- Up for a vote
- Passed one chamber
- Passed
- Enacted
Committee
Codes · New York State Assembly
Also referred to Codes · New York State Senate, Labor · New York State Assembly, Labor · New York State Senate.
Cosponsors
Al Taylor, Albert A. Stirpe and 24 more on Agora
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The sponsor's argument
Why Jamaal Bailey says this is needed
Multiple studies by the NYS Department of Health have found that a significant number of child lead poisoning cases were related to home renovation, repair, and painting ("RRP") activities, which if not performed safely can cause the spread of toxic lead dust. Since 2008, federal law has required the use of specified safe work practices and training for RRP work in pre-1978 residential dwellings performed by hired contractors. While the federal RRP rules permit states to assume enforcement of this program, New York (unlike many states) has not done so -- even though New York State has the highest number of older resi- dential dwellings with lead-based paint in the nation, and as well the highest number of childhood lead poisoning cases in the nation. This has left enforcement to the federal EPA, which has consistently failed to bring adequate resources to ensure compliance, as EPA's Inspector Gener- al reported in 2019. For example, EPA has just 3.5 inspectors to cover a vast region consisting of New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The proposed bill would enable NY to assume administration of the RRP rules, allowing New York to conduct training, certification, and enforcement of the RRP. The proposal would also require the use of empirically based dust wipe clearance tests (rather than the problematic "cleaning verification" used in the federal regulations) to ensure prop- er cleaning of hazardous lead dust once work is completed. The fees for accreditation of persons to do this work would be used to fund the program. A detailed report from the Community Foundation of Buffalo estimated that this bill would protect some 140,000 children under age 6 each year from lead hazard exposure in some 483,000 homes undergoing RRP work annually.
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Full history
- May 19, 2026
Sent to the executive
DELIVERED TO SENATE
NY Assembly
- May 19, 2026
Passed a chamber
PASSED ASSEMBLY
NY Assembly
- May 19, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO LABOR
NY Senate
- May 14, 2026
Reported out of committee
REPORTED
NY Assembly
- May 14, 2026
Rules Report CAL.113
RULES REPORT CAL.113
NY Assembly
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- May 12, 2026
Reported out of committee
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
NY Assembly
- Apr 21, 2026
Reported out of committee
REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
NY Assembly
- Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
- Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO LABOR
NY Senate
- Mar 6, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO LABOR
NY Senate
- Jan 28, 2025
Reported out of committee
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
- Jan 22, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO LABOR
NY Assembly