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                                   1987
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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:
   § 3005-C. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING. 1.   BEGIN-
 NING  JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN, 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.
   § 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-
 viduals responsible for providing emergency response recovery  following
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.