Assembly Bill A2003

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Enacts the disaster preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2017

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A2003 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1037
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §29-l, amd §21, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A6229, S1715
2019-2020: S3538

2017-A2003 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "disaster preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2017"; provides for an awareness campaign for disaster preparedness during the third full week in September.

2017-A2003 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2003
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "disaster
   preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2017"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "disaster
 preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2017."
   § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 29-l to read
 as follows:
   § 29-L. DISASTER PREPAREDNESS WEEK. 1. THE THIRD FULL WEEK OF  SEPTEM-
 BER  IN  EACH  YEAR  SHALL BE DESIGNATED AND IS HEREBY KNOWN AS DISASTER
 PREPAREDNESS WEEK IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
   2. THE COMMISSION SHALL  DEVELOP  A  DISASTER  PREPAREDNESS  AWARENESS
 CAMPAIGN  IN  CONJUNCTION WITH ANY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC NONPROFIT ORGANIZA-
 TIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS THAT THE DIRECTOR MAY CHOOSE, INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO  THE NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES, THE ASSOCIATION
 OF TOWNS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, THE  NEW  YORK  STATE  CONFERENCE  OF
 MAYORS  AND  MUNICIPAL  OFFICIALS  AND  THE NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL BOARDS
 ASSOCIATION.
   3. DURING THE THIRD FULL WEEK OF SEPTEMBER IN EACH YEAR,  SUCH  AWARE-
 NESS  CAMPAIGN  SHALL  MAKE PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS UTILIZING TELE-
 VISION, RADIO, INTERNET AND OTHER MEDIA RESOURCES TO ASSIST CITIZENS  IN
 BECOMING BETTER PREPARED FOR NATURAL OR MAN-MADE DISASTERS.
   §  3. Paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section 21 of the executive law,
 as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   i.  submit to the governor, the legislature and the chief judge of the
 state by March thirty-first of each year an annual  report  which  shall
 include but need not be limited to:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01829-01-7
              

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