Assembly Bill A7036

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster and includes air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans

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2025-A7036 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5729
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§20 & 23, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7932

2025-A7036 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.

2025-A7036 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7036
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to adding  hazardous  air
   quality to the state definition of a disaster and including air quali-
   ty  emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management
   plans

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 20 of the executive
 law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
 follows:
   a. "disaster" means occurrence or imminent, impending or urgent threat
 of  wide  spread  or  severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property
 resulting from any natural or [man-made] HUMAN-MADE  causes,  including,
 but  not  limited  to, fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, high
 water, landslide, mudslide, wind, storm, wave action, volcanic activity,
 epidemic, disease outbreak, air contamination,  HAZARDOUS  AIR  QUALITY,
 terrorism,  cyber event, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, radio-
 logical accident,  nuclear,  chemical,  biological,  or  bacteriological
 release, water contamination, bridge failure or bridge collapse.
   § 2. Section 23 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 vision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  SUCH  PLANS SHALL ADDITIONALLY INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE
 FOLLOWING REGARDING AIR QUALITY EMERGENCIES:
   A. AN ACTION PLAN FOR THE MUNICIPALITY IN THE CASE OF AN  AIR  QUALITY
 EMERGENCY; AND
   B.  AN  ANNUAL  INVENTORY  OF THE MUNICIPALITY'S AIR QUALITY EMERGENCY
 RESOURCES.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10455-01-5

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