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Assembly Bill A7926

2023-2024 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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2023-A7926 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1481
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10272, S7342
2025-2026: A3913

2023-A7926 (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.

2023-A7926 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7926
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- 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.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05371-01-3

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