Assembly Bill A3140

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring local disaster preparedness plans to include a public education component as part of disaster prevention

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A3140 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2791
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4589
2011-2012: A7881
2013-2014: A6028
2015-2016: A6766, S5278
2017-2018: A3214, S1395
2021-2022: S5862
2023-2024: S3016

2019-A3140 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires local disaster preparedness plans to include a public education component as part of disaster prevention, which shall be widely disseminated and shall take into consideration the linguistic and cultural characteristics of the inhabitants.

2019-A3140 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3140
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring local disas-
   ter preparedness plans to include a public education component as part
   of disaster prevention

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 7 of section 23 of the executive
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 3-a to read as follows:
   (3-A)  A PUBLIC EDUCATION COMPONENT THAT SHALL BE WIDELY DISSEMINATED,
 AS APPROVED BY THE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY  SERVICES
 PURSUANT  TO  REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED  BY SUCH DIVISION, AND SHALL TAKE
 INTO CONSIDERATION THE LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL  CHARACTERISTICS  OF  THE
 INHABITANTS;
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07137-01-9

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