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                                   8363
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2020
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 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to including the  commis-
   sioner  of addiction services and supports as a member of the disaster
   preparedness commission

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivision  1  of  section 21 of the executive law, as
 amended by chapter 176 of the laws  of  2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  There  is  hereby  created  in the executive department a disaster
 preparedness commission consisting of the commissioners  of  transporta-
 tion, health, division of criminal justice services, education, economic
 development,  agriculture  and  markets,  housing and community renewal,
 general services,  labor,  environmental  conservation,  mental  health,
 ADDICTION  SERVICES AND SUPPORTS, parks, recreation and historic preser-
 vation, corrections  and  community  supervision,  children  and  family
 services,  homeland  security  and  emergency  services, and people with
 developmental disabilities, the president of the New York  state  energy
 research  and development authority, the superintendents of state police
 and financial services, the secretary of state, the state fire  adminis-
 trator,  the chair of the public service commission, the adjutant gener-
 al, the office of information technology services,  and  the  office  of
 victim services, the chairs of the thruway authority, the office for the
 aging,  the metropolitan transportation authority, the port authority of
 New York and New Jersey, the chief professional  officer  of  the  state
 coordinating  chapter  of  the  American  Red Cross and three additional
 members, to be appointed by the governor, two of  whom  shall  be  chief
 executives.  Each member agency may designate an executive level officer
 of that agency, with responsibility for disaster  preparedness  matters,
 who may represent that agency on the commission. The commissioner of the
 division  of  homeland  security  and  emergency services shall serve as
 chair of the commission, and the governor shall designate the vice chair
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 of the commission. The members of the commission, except those who serve
 ex officio,  shall  be  allowed  their  actual  and  necessary  expenses
 incurred in the performance of their duties under this article but shall
 receive  no  additional  compensation  for services rendered pursuant to
 this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.