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                                 6229--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 18, 2015
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Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to  the  Committee
  on  Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
  and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "disaster
  preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2016"

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

  Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "disaster
preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2016."
  S 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 29-l to read
as follows:
  S  29-L. DISASTER PREPAREDNESS WEEK. 1. THE THIRD FULL WEEK OF SEPTEM-
BER IN EACH YEAR SHALL BE DESIGNATED AND IS  HEREBY  KNOWN  AS  DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS WEEK IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
  2.  THE  COMMISSION  SHALL  DEVELOP  A DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AWARENESS
CAMPAIGN IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC  NONPROFIT  ORGANIZA-
TIONS  AND  ASSOCIATIONS THAT THE DIRECTOR MAY CHOOSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO THE NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES,  THE  ASSOCIATION
OF  TOWNS  OF  THE  STATE  OF NEW YORK, THE NEW YORK STATE CONFERENCE OF
MAYORS AND MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS AND THE  NEW  YORK  STATE  SCHOOL  BOARDS
ASSOCIATION.
  3.  DURING  THE THIRD FULL WEEK OF SEPTEMBER IN EACH YEAR, SUCH AWARE-
NESS CAMPAIGN SHALL MAKE PUBLIC SERVICE  ANNOUNCEMENTS  UTILIZING  TELE-
VISION,  RADIO, INTERNET AND OTHER MEDIA RESOURCES TO ASSIST CITIZENS IN
BECOMING BETTER PREPARED FOR NATURAL OR MAN-MADE DISASTERS.
  S 3. Paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section 21 of the executive  law,
as  amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03507-03-6

              

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  i. submit to the governor, the legislature and the chief judge of  the
state  by  March  thirty-first of each year an annual report which shall
include but need not be limited to:
  (1)  a  summary of commission and state agency activities for the year
and plans for the ensuing year with respect to the duties and  responsi-
bilities of the commission;
  (2)  recommendations  on ways to improve state and local capability to
prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters;
  (3) the status of the state and local plans for disaster  preparedness
and  response,  including  the  name of any locality which has failed or
refused to develop and implement its own disaster preparedness plan  and
program;  and  the extent to which all forms of local emergency response
assets have been included, and accounted for in planning and preparation
for disaster preparedness and response; [and]
  (4)  THE  ACTIVITIES  UNDERTAKEN  IN  PREPARATION  FOR  THE   DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS  WEEK  AWARENESS CAMPAIGN AND AN OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITIES
OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S DISASTER PREPAREDNESS WEEK; AND
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.