Assembly Bill A8952

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to direct dialing to public service answering points

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S7171 - Signed by Governor

  • 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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2019-A8952 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7171
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §717-a, Exec L (as proposed in S.4756 & A.458)

2019-A8952 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to direct dialing to public service answering points.

2019-A8952 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8952
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to direct dialing to
   public service answering points
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 717-a of the executive law,
 as  added  by  a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the executive law
 relating to direct  dialing  to  public  service  answering  points,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4756 and A. 458, are amended to
 read as follows:
   3. All public buildings which operate on a multi-line telephone system
 in  this state must configure their multi-line telephone system hardware
 to allow any call to 911 on the system to be  directly  connected  to  a
 public  service  answering  point; PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT IN THE CASE OF
 PUBLIC BUILDINGS GOVERNED BY SECTION THREE  HUNDRED  FIFTY-FIVE  OR  SIX
 THOUSAND  TWO  HUNDRED  FOUR  OF  THE EDUCATION LAW WHICH HAVE ON-CAMPUS
 EMERGENCY ANSWERING POINTS, SUCH PUBLIC BUILDINGS  MAY  ROUTE  SUCH  911
 CALLS TO THEIR ON-CAMPUS ANSWERING POINTS.
   4.  The  requirements  of  subdivision three of this section shall not
 apply to any public building operating on a multi-line telephone  system
 that  would  be  required  to  upgrade  the  hardware of their telephone
 network to meet said requirement. However, every telephone in any exempt
 public building operating on a multi-line telephone system  shall  place
 an  instructional  sticker  on or immediately adjacent to each telephone
 informing users of the phone's inability to directly dial  911  and  the
 procedures to follow to connect to a 911 public service answering point,
 OR  IN  THE  CASE  OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS GOVERNED BY SECTION THREE HUNDRED
 FIFTY-FIVE OR SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FOUR OF THE EDUCATION  LAW  WHICH
 HAVE  ON-CAMPUS  EMERGENCY  ANSWERING  POINTS,  SUCH ON-CAMPUS ANSWERING
 POINTS, in case of an emergency.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2019, amending the executive law
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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