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Senate Bill S2561

2013-2014 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2013-S2561 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6028
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3923, A4589
2011-2012: S5271, A7881
2015-2016: A6766
2017-2018: A3214
2019-2020: A3140

2013-S2561 (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.

2013-S2561 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S2561 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2561

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  BALL  --  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 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;
  S 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.
                                                           LBD07279-01-3

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