Bill Text: NJ S260 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes coastal operations team to review county evacuation plans.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S260 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S260-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)
Senator CHRISTOPHER J. CONNORS
District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Establishes coastal operations team to review county evacuation plans.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning emergency management and supplementing chapter 9 of Appendix A.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The New Jersey Office of Emergency Management shall establish a coastal operations team composed of experts in emergency evacuation and emergency shelter management. The coastal operations team shall review and assess the evacuation plans of the State's coastal counties, as well as other surrounding counties that the team determines would be affected by an evacuation of the coast in the event of an emergency. It shall be the primary responsibility of the coastal operations team to ensure consistency among the various county evacuation plans, and to integrate those plans into a Statewide evacuation plan. The team shall work in coordination with the county offices of emergency management to revise any evacuation plan that, upon review, proves to be inconsistent with the evacuation plans of other counties, or with the State Emergency Operations Plan Guidelines.
The coastal operations team shall biannually report its progress to the Governor with its recommendations for the improvement and development of county emergency evacuation.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management to establish a coastal operations team composed of experts in emergency evacuation and emergency shelter management. The bill requires the team to review and assess the evacuation plans of the State's coastal counties, as well as other surrounding counties that the team determines would be affected by an evacuation of the coast in the event of an emergency. Under the bill, it is the primary responsibility of the coastal operations team to ensure consistency among the various county evacuation plans, and integrate the county plans into a Statewide evacuation plan. The bill requires the team to work in coordination with the county offices of emergency management to revise any evacuation plan that, upon review, proves to be inconsistent with the evacuation plans of other counties, or with the State Emergency Operations Plan Guidelines.
The regional operations team is to make a biannual report to the Governor with its recommendations for the improvement and development of county and municipal emergency evacuation.
This bill would implement Recommendation 2 of the Final Report of the Assembly Coastal New Jersey Evacuation Task Force which was submitted to the Speaker on May 23, 2008.
