Bill Text: NY A04862 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides employers the opportunity to register for emergency alerts from the state of New York public safety alert mass notification system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-15 - signed chap.386 [A04862 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04862-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4862

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. ARDILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, in relation to providing employers with
          the opportunity to register for emergency alerts from the state of New
          York public safety alert mass notification system

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 219-d to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 219-d. Emergency alert notification system employer registration. 1.
     4  The department, in consultation with the  state  office  of  information
     5  technology  services,  shall  provide every employer in the state with a
     6  registration form which shall be created by the state office of informa-
     7  tion technology services, to voluntarily  register  with  the  emergency
     8  alert  notification  system. Such registration form shall be accompanied
     9  by a summary of the benefits of registering for alerts from the emergen-
    10  cy alert notification system, including a description of how the use  of
    11  the  emergency  alert  system can be utilized to preserve the health and
    12  safety of workers, and an example for dissemination to workers of infor-
    13  mation received from an emergency alert notification.
    14    2. For the purposes of this section, the "emergency alert notification
    15  system" shall mean the state office of information  technology  services
    16  alert system known as alert.ny.gov, or NY-Alert.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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