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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2015
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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 SEVENTEEN, THE DEPARTMENT, IN COOPER-
ATION WITH THE STATE FIRE ADMINISTRATOR, SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE HAZARDOUS
MATERIALS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING, PURSUANT TO THE PROGRAM ESTAB-
LISHED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX-A OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, FOR ALL
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL EMPLOYED BY A FIRE DEPARTMENT OPER-
ATING 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 3 of part A of chapter 101 of the laws of 2013, 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.