Assembly Bill A10272

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Directs the office of information technology services to establish a gun violence alert system to be added to the emergency alert notification system

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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-A10272 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7342
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7926, S1481

2021-A10272 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the office of information technology services to establish a gun violence alert system to be added to the emergency alert notification system, known as alert.ny.gov or NY-Alert to provide real-time warnings and emergency information pertaining to gun violence to citizens of New York State.

2021-A10272 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10272
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cahill) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT in relation to directing the  office  of  information  technology
   services to add a gun violence alert to the New York alert system
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The office of information technology services shall  estab-
 lish  a  gun violence alert to be added to the emergency alert notifica-
 tion system, also known as alert.ny.gov or NY-Alert. Such  gun  violence
 alert  shall  be  added to the list of notifications available via phone
 call, email, text message, fax or  other  method  to  provide  real-time
 warnings  and  emergency information pertaining to gun violence to citi-
 zens of New York State.   Such gun violence alerts  shall  notify  those
 NY-Alert  subscribers  within a one-mile radius of such gun violence, as
 determined by the law enforcement agency or division reporting such  gun
 violence to the emergency alert notification system,  for the protection
 and safety of persons located within such area.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11994-04-1

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