Assembly Bill A8903

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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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-A8903 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental 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
2017-2018: A6865
2019-2020: A3923
2023-2024: A758

2021-A8903 (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.

2021-A8903 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8903
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. WEPRIN, CUSICK, BENEDETTO, ABINANTI, SEAWRIGHT,
   STERN, REYES, BUTTENSCHON, OTIS, SANTABARBARA, FALL -- Multi-Sponsored
   by -- M. of A.  PERRY -- 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
 intake process.  The registry shall be updated annually.  The  registra-
 tion  program shall give [disabled persons] SUCH PEOPLE OF ALL AGES WITH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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