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Senate Bill S6826

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Ensures public safety announcements are accessible to visually impaired individuals

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2025-S6826 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5823
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §22, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9239, A10064

2025-S6826 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that the state system for warning populations who are or may be endangered includes audible alerts for all announcements to ensure that information is accessible to visually impaired individuals.

2025-S6826 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6826 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6826
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 ensuring public safety
   announcements are accessible to visually impaired individuals

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph 3 of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section
 22 of the executive law, as amended by section 3 of part B of chapter 56
 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   (3) a system for warning populations who are  or  may  be  endangered,
 SUCH SYSTEM SHALL INCLUDE AUDIBLE ALERTS FOR ALL ANNOUNCEMENTS TO ENSURE
 THAT INFORMATION IS ACCESSIBLE TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS;
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09840-01-5

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