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Assembly Bill A9517

Signed By Governor

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires operational safety plans to require employees to check in before taking action at an incident location; directs the office to make efforts to provide employees with operational safety plans

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2025-A9517 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8767
Law Section:
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3.16, Pks & Rec L (as proposed in S.7680-A & A.6634-A)

2025-A9517 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that an operational safety plan developed by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation shall require that any employee check in with the incident commander or safety officer for incident specific procedures prior to taking any action at the incident location; provides that when deployment occurs in coordination with one or more other entities, and the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation is not the lead response agency, the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that employees are provided with the incident specific operational safety plan developed by the lead agency and/or incident commander.

2025-A9517 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9517
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
   relation to requiring operational safety plans to require an  employee
   to  check  in  with  the incident commander or safety officer prior to
   taking action at an incident location, and  requiring  the  office  of
   parks, recreation and historic preservation to make reasonable efforts
   to  provide  employees with incident specific operational safety plans
   under certain circumstances
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 3.16 of the parks, recre-
 ation and historic preservation law, as added by a chapter of  the  laws
 of  2025  amending  the  parks, recreation and historic preservation law
 relating to mandating the development and approval of operational safety
 plans, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7680-A and A. 6634-A,
 are amended to read as follows:
   1. The office shall develop and approve operational safety plans prior
 to the deployment of any employee  in  hazardous  conditions.  The  plan
 shall  include,  but  not be limited to, a comprehensive risk assessment
 identifying potential hazards associated with the deployment, mitigation
 measures to address  identified  risks,  detailed  information  on  team
 composition  including  roles and responsibilities, identification of an
 on-site authorized person responsible for overseeing operations, a clear
 chain of command for decision-making during  the  deployment,  emergency
 contact  information  for  all  team members, and [evacuation procedures
 tailored to the specific deployment scenario], TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE,
 EVACUATION PROCEDURES.  THE PLAN SHALL REQUIRE THAT ANY  EMPLOYEE  CHECK
 IN  WITH  THE INCIDENT COMMANDER OR SAFETY OFFICER FOR INCIDENT SPECIFIC
 PROCEDURES PRIOR TO TAKING ANY ACTION AT THE  INCIDENT  LOCATION.    The
 commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall review and approve all
 operational  safety  plans  to ensure compliance with established safety
 standards, verify that  the  employees  being  deployed  are  adequately
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10348-04-6

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