NY State Senate Bill 2021-S7675

Senate Bill S7675

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes training and education practices for firefighters and first responders to assist and protect mobility limited and intellectually challenged individuals in emergency situations

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Delivered to Governor
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 03, 2022	committed to rules
May 11, 2022	advanced to third reading
May 10, 2022	2nd report cal.
May 09, 2022	1st report cal.1136
Jan 06, 2022	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs

Votes

- May 9, 2022 - Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee Vote
  S7675
  
  9
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee Vote: May 9, 2022
      
      aye (9)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Brooks
      
      Harckham
      
      Jordan
      
      Reichlin-Melnick
      
      Ritchie
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Serrano
      
      Weik

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2021-S7675 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9053
Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §709, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S3190, A1533

2021-S7675 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes training and education practices for firefighters and first responders to assist and protect mobility limited and intellectually challenged individuals in emergency situations.

2021-S7675 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7675

SPONSOR: MANNION
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing training
and education practices for firefighters and first responders to protect
and assist mobility limited and intellectually challenged individuals
during an emergency situation

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This legislation would require the division of homeland security and
emergency services to establish best practices for first responders and
firefighters to assist individuals with disabilities.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amend section 709 of the executive law. Requires DHSES to
their current offerings of best practices regarding firefighter and
emergency response training and education to include skills and tech-
niques necessary to protect individuals with disabilities

Section 2. Effective Date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

For too much of this nation's history, individuals with disabilities
have been overlooked in mostly every facet of our civic life. As a
result, language and direction is often not offered for or does not take
into account - individuals with disabilities within many of the most
standard of societal procedures and practices. This legislation would
ensure that first responders have access to training and best practices
on techniques to protect both mobility limited and intellectually chal-
lenged individuals during an emergency situation; it does so by requir-
ing the division of homeland security and emergency services to estab-
lish best practices for first responders and firefighters to assist
individuals with disabilities.

This legislation will lead to a safer world for individuals with disa-
bilities by ensuring that they are taken into account and not overlooked
in our planning for - and procedures during - an emergency situation.
Furthermore, the legislation will support firefighters and other first
responders by ensuring access to the standard and best practices that
they may require in an emergency situation.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

TBD.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2021-S7675 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7675
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing  training
   and  education  practices  for  firefighters  and  first responders to
   protect and assist  mobility  limited  and  intellectually  challenged
   individuals during an emergency situation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (u) of subdivision 2 of section 709 of the execu-
 tive law, as added by section 22 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws  of
 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   (u)  Notwithstanding  article  six-C  of  this  chapter,  or any other
 provision of law to the contrary, the division of homeland security  and
 emergency services shall establish best practices regarding training and
 education  for firefighters and first responders which shall include but
 not be limited to: minimum basic training  for  firefighters  and  first
 responders;  in-service training and continuing education; MINIMUM BASIC
 TRAINING TO PROVIDE FIREFIGHTERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS WITH THE PRACTICAL
 SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES NECESSARY TO  PROTECT  AND  ASSIST  BOTH  MOBILITY
 LIMITED  AND  INTELLECTUALLY  CHALLENGED INDIVIDUALS DURING AN EMERGENCY
 SITUATION; and specialized training as it  may  apply  to  the  specific
 duties of a category of emergency personnel.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13792-02-1

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John W. Mannion