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Assembly Bill A3386

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring certain emergency response vehicles to be equipped with appropriate communication devices for deaf individuals

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2025-A3386 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6382
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §563, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10508

2025-A3386 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires police vehicles, fire vehicles, ambulances and emergency ambulance service vehicles to be equipped with appropriate communication devices to facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals.

2025-A3386 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3386
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to equipping certain
   emergency response vehicles with appropriate communication devices for
   deaf individuals
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 563 to
 read as follows:
   §  563.  EMERGENCY  RESPONSE  VEHICLES;  COMMUNICATION  DEVICES. EVERY
 POLICE VEHICLE, FIRE VEHICLE, AMBULANCE, OR EMERGENCY AMBULANCE  SERVICE
 VEHICLE,  AS  SUCH  TERMS  ARE DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND
 TRAFFIC LAW, SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH APPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION DEVICES TO
 FACILITATE REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION WITH DEAF INDIVIDUALS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have  become
 a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05045-01-5

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