Assembly Bill A6865

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires counties to maintain a confidential registry of people of all ages with disabilities for disaster preparedness

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • 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-A6865 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9067
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A7257
2013-2014: A8816, A6432
2015-2016: A2658
2019-2020: A3923, S5750
2021-2022: A8903
2023-2024: A758

2017-A6865 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires counties to maintain a confidential registry of people of all ages with disabilities for the purpose of evacuating and sheltering such persons during disasters.

2017-A6865 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6865
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 22, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WEPRIN, CUSICK, BENEDETTO, KAVANAGH, ABINANTI --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FARRELL, PERRY, TITONE -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring counties  to
   maintain  a confidential registry of people of all ages with disabili-
   ties for evacuation and sheltering during disasters
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 23-a of the executive law, as added by chapter 658
 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   § 23-a. [County] CONFIDENTIAL COUNTY registry  of  [disabled  persons]
 PEOPLE  OF ALL AGES WITH DISABILITIES, AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDI-
 VISION TWENTY-ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED  NINETY-TWO  OF  THIS  CHAPTER;
 notice.    1.    In  each  county having a local [disaster preparedness]
 COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT plan pursuant to section twenty-three
 of this article, in order to meet the special needs of  persons  OF  ALL
 AGES  WITH DISABILITIES who would need assistance during evacuations and
 sheltering because of physical or mental  [handicaps]  DISABILITIES,  it
 [is  recommended] SHALL BE REQUIRED that each chief executive maintain a
 CONFIDENTIAL registry of [disabled persons]  PEOPLE  OF  ALL  AGES  WITH
 DISABILITIES  located  within the county.  PEOPLE OF ALL AGES WITH DISA-
 BILITIES SHALL BE GIVEN THE OPTION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE  REGISTRY.  The
 [registration]  REGISTRY shall identify those persons in need of assist-
 ance and plan for resource allocation to meet  those  identified  needs.
 To  assist  the  chief executive in identifying such persons, the county
 department of health, [or] AND THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES,
 THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, such other county department  or
 agency  as  designated by the chief executive, shall provide [voluntary]
 INFORMATION ABOUT THE REGISTRY AND THE registration [information]  PROC-
 ESS  to  all  of  its [special needs clients] CONSUMERS OF ALL AGES WITH
 DISABILITIES and to all incoming [clients]  CONSUMERS  as  part  of  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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