Assembly Bill A6984

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes civilian cyber security reserve forces

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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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2021-A6984 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Military Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2, add Art 14 §§350 - 357, Mil L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A8776

2021-A6984 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes civilian cyber security reserve forces within the New York state militia to be capable of being expanded and trained to educate and protect state, county, and local government entities, critical infrastructure, including election systems, businesses and citizens of the state from cyber attacks; makes related provisions.

2021-A6984 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6984
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CUSICK, WOERNER, BUTTENSCHON, GUNTHER, GLICK,
   SIMON, MAGNARELLI, COLTON, ZEBROWSKI, DICKENS -- Multi-Sponsored by --
   M. of A.  GALEF, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to establishing the civil-
   ian cyber security reserve forces

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 2 of the military law, as amended
 by chapter 731 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The militia of the state shall be divided into the organized  mili-
 tia,  the state reserve list, the state retired list and the unorganized
 militia. The organized militia shall be composed of the  New  York  army
 national  guard;  the New York air national guard; the inactive national
 guard; THE CIVILIAN CYBER SECURITY RESERVE FORCES; the  New  York  naval
 militia;  the  New  York guard whenever such a state force shall be duly
 organized and such additional forces as may be created by the governor.
   § 2. The military law is amended by adding a new article 14 to read as
 follows:
                                ARTICLE 14
                  CIVILIAN CYBER SECURITY RESERVE FORCES
 SECTION 350. CIVILIAN CYBER SECURITY RESERVE FORCES.
         351. RULES AND  REGULATIONS;  CIVILIAN  CYBER  SECURITY  RESERVE
                FORCES.
         352. EQUIPMENT.
         353. RESTRICTIONS.
         354. MEMBERSHIP.
         355. NEW YORK CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE.
         356. RESIGNATION.
         357. GOVERNOR'S ROLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01910-01-1
              

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