New York Assembly Bill 8981 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on June 17 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to governmental operations
Pending: Assembly Governmental Operations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Relates to local disaster preparedness plans; appropriation

Includes acts of terrorism including biological, chemical or radiological terrorism within the definition of disaster for the purpose of local disaster preparedness plans; adds to what must be included within a county disaster preparedness plan; establishes the energy transportation and storage security program; establishes the government continuity program; establishes the business continuity program; establishes the post disaster recovery program; establishes the energy security program; establishes the public security evacuation program; establishes the disaster preparedness plan program; establishes an endowed academic chair within the state university of New York for the study of terrorism and homeland security; directs such chair to organize conferences and seminars, develop training programs for law enforcement officers, publish its proceedings and maintain a library; appropriates $350,000 therefor; directs law enforcement agencies to immediately report to the superintendent of state police every report of a suspected or preceived release of a chemical, biological or radiological agent.

Sen. Greg Ball [R]

Asm. Clifford Crouch [R]

Sen. James Tedisco [R]

Asm. David Townsend [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to governmental operations
2009-06-17		referred to governmental operations

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08981&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08981&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A08981