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                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the public health law and the executive law, in relation
  to the provision of hazardous materials emergency response training to
  emergency  medical  services  personnel  employed by a fire department
  operating within a city with a population of more than one million

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

  Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
3005-c to read as follows:
  S 3005-C. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING. 1.   BEGIN-
NING JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, THE DEPARTMENT, IN COOPERATION
WITH  THE STATE FIRE ADMINISTRATOR, SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE HAZARDOUS MATE-
RIALS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING, PURSUANT TO THE  PROGRAM  ESTABLISHED
IN  SECTION  ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX-A OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, FOR ALL EMER-
GENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL EMPLOYED BY A FIRE DEPARTMENT OPERATING
WITHIN A CITY OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
  2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INFORM ALL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PERSON-
NEL COVERED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,  OF  THE  IMPLEMENTATION
AND  AVAILABILITY OF THE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING
PROGRAM.
  3. FUNDING FOR THE TRAINING REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE PROVIDED
BY THE DEPARTMENT PURSUANT TO  SECTION    NINETY-SEVEN-Q  OF  THE  STATE
FINANCE LAW.
  S  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 156-a of the executive law, as amended
by section 23 of part G of chapter 58 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
read as follows:
  1. (A) The state fire administrator shall, IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE
ADVISORY  COUNCIL  FOR FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL, establish a special-
ized hazardous materials emergency response training program  for  indi-

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

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viduals  responsible for providing emergency response recovery following
incidents involving hazardous materials as such term is defined in regu-
lations promulgated by the commissioner of  transportation  pursuant  to
section  fourteen-f  of the transportation law.  The state fire adminis-
trator shall inform  all  fire  companies,  municipal  corporations  and
districts, including agencies and departments thereof and all firefight-
ers,  both  paid  and  volunteer, and related officers and employees and
police officers of the implementation and availability of the  hazardous
materials  emergency response training program and shall, subject to the
availability of an appropriation, conduct such training with  sufficient
frequency  to  assure adequate response to incidents involving hazardous
materials and protection of responders in all geographic  areas  of  the
state.
  (B) THE STATE FIRE ADMINISTRATOR SHALL COOPERATE WITH THE COMMISSIONER
OF  HEALTH  TO  ESTABLISH  THE SPECIALIZED HAZARDOUS MATERIALS EMERGENCY
RESPONSE TRAINING  PROGRAM  FOR  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES  PERSONNEL
PROVIDED FOR IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND FIVE-C OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.