S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4362
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring local disas-
ter preparedness plans to include a public education component as part
of disaster prevention
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 7 of section 23 of the executive
law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 3-a to read as follows:
(3-A) A PUBLIC EDUCATION COMPONENT THAT SHALL BE WIDELY DISSEMINATED,
AS APPROVED BY THE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES
PURSUANT TO REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY SUCH DIVISION, AND SHALL TAKE
INTO CONSIDERATION THE LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
INHABITANTS;
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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