Bill Text: NY A00276 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the director of the office of homeland security and emergency services to conduct a review and analysis of the security measures taken at the transportation facilities of the metropolitan transportation authority and its subsidiaries; requires such director to issue confidential reports of his or her findings and recommendations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-24 - print number 276a [A00276 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00276-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         276--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ROZIC, KAVANAGH, COLTON, COOK, GALEF, HOOPER,
          MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.  ABBATE,  BRENNAN,  ORTIZ,
          PERRY,  ROBINSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
          mental Operations -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Governmental
          Operations  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to creation  of  security
          measures  for the transportation facilities of the metropolitan trans-
          portation authority
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (q) of subdivision 2 of section 709 of the execu-
     2  tive  law,  as amended by section 14 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws
     3  of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (q) request from any department, division, office, commission or other
     5  agency of the state or any political subdivision thereof, or any  public
     6  authority  or public benefit corporation, and the same are authorized to
     7  provide, such assistance, services and data as may be  required  by  the
     8  division of homeland security and emergency services in carrying out the
     9  purposes  of  this article, subject to applicable laws, rules, and regu-
    10  lations;
    11    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 719 to  read
    12  as follows:
    13    § 719. Protection of critical infrastructure; metropolitan transporta-
    14  tion  authority  facilities.  1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of
    15  law, the director of the  office  of  homeland  security  and  emergency
    16  services  shall conduct a review and analysis of measures being taken by
    17  the metropolitan  transportation  authority  and  any  other  agency  or
    18  authority  of the state or any political subdivision thereof and, to the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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