Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 21, 2012 |
referred to finance delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 04, 2012 |
ordered to third reading cal.239 returned to assembly died in senate |
May 16, 2011 |
referred to finance delivered to senate passed assembly |
May 12, 2011 |
advanced to third reading cal.351 |
May 10, 2011 |
reported reported referred to ways and means |
May 02, 2011 |
reported referred to codes |
Apr 21, 2011 |
referred to governmental operations |
Assembly Bill A7257
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CUSICK
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Margaret Markey
Michael Benedetto
John McEneny
Peter Rivera
multi-Sponsors
Herman D. Farrell
Matthew Titone
2011-A7257 (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-A7257 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7257 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 21, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, DESTITO, MARKEY, PEOPLES-STOKES, BENEDET- TO, PHEFFER, McENENY, P. RIVERA, SPANO, KAVANAGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring counties to maintain a confidential registry of people of all ages with disabili- ties for evacuation and sheltering during disasters THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 23-a of the executive law, as added by chapter 658 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: S 23-a. [County] CONFIDENTIAL COUNTY registry of [disabled persons] PEOPLE OF ALL AGES WITH DISABILITIES, AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDI- VISION TWENTY-ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER; notice. 1. In each county having a local disaster preparedness plan pursuant to section twenty-three of this article, in order to meet the special needs of persons OF ALL AGES WITH DISABILITIES who would need assistance during evacuations and sheltering because of physical or mental [handicaps] DISABILITIES, it [is recommended] SHALL BE REQUIRED that each chief executive maintain a registry of [disabled persons] PEOPLE OF ALL AGES WITH DISABILITIES located within the county. PEOPLE OF ALL AGES WITH DISABILITIES SHALL BE GIVEN THE OPTION NOT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE REGISTRY. The registration shall identify those persons in need of assistance and plan for resource allocation to meet those identified needs. To assist the chief executive in identifying such persons, the county department of health, THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, or such other county department or agency as designated by the chief executive, shall provide [voluntary] registration information to all of its [special needs] clients OF ALL AGES WITH DISABILITIES and to all incoming clients as part of the intake process. The registry shall be updated annually. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10967-01-1
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