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Assembly Bill A3477
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CORWIN
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
William A. Barclay
Steven McLaughlin
2013-A3477 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A3477 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Establishes the NYS Electromagnetic Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission to study and investigate EMP threats to NYS infrastructures, gather information, make recommendations and inform local governments and agencies about the hazards of natural and man-made EMP events.
2013-A3477 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3477 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 28, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CORWIN, BARCLAY, McLAUGHLIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT establishing the New York state electromagnetic pulse critical infrastructure protection commission THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Commission established. A commission to be known as the New York state electromagnetic pulse critical infrastructure protection commission, hereafter referred to as the commission, is hereby estab- lished to identify any necessary steps that it believes should be taken by New York state to protect its civilian systems from an electromagnet- ic pulse (EMP) event. Such commission shall educate itself about EMP and EMP threats and vulnerabilities to New York state's infrastructures, gather facts as needed, make recommendations, and inform local agencies and governments about the hazards of natural and man-made EMP events. Furthermore, the commission shall assess the dangers from all EMP threats and this shall include developing a plan to protect the state from an EMP event, as well as responding to the aftermath and recovery after such an event. S 2. Specifically, the commission shall: 1. study the findings and recommendations of the congressional commis- sion to assess the threat to the United States of America from electro- magnetic pulse attack (the EMP commission); the congressional commission on strategic posture of the United States regarding EMP, the national academy of sciences and the national fire protection association (NFPA) and other related EMP findings and materials that are available with regard to the following: (a) the vulnerability of New York state's civilian systems to natural and man-made EMP events, giving special attention to the vulnerability of the civilian infrastructure as a matter of emergency preparedness; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07727-01-3
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