Bill Text: NY A04865 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


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 17-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-22 - print number 4865a [A04865 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04865-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         4865--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC, ABBATE, BLAKE, COLTON, COOK, GALEF, GOTT-
          FRIED, JEAN-PIERRE, M. G. MILLER,  MOSLEY,  ORTIZ,  OTIS,  GRIFFIN  --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, HYNDMAN, PERRY, SIMON --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental 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
    19  extent  practicable,  of  any federal entity, to protect the security of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01001-03-0

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     1  critical infrastructure related to the transportation facilities,  which
     2  shall  include  those  facilities  set forth in subdivision seventeen of
     3  section twelve hundred sixty-one of the public authorities law and shall
     4  also  include,  for purposes of this section, bridges and tunnels of the
     5  metropolitan transportation authority and of all  subsidiaries  of  such
     6  authority.  The director of the office of homeland security and emergen-
     7  cy  services  shall  have  the authority to review any audits or reports
     8  related to the  security  of  such  critical  infrastructure,  including
     9  audits or reports conducted at the request of the metropolitan transpor-
    10  tation  authority  or  any other agency or authority of the state or any
    11  political subdivision thereof or, to  the  extent  practicable,  of  any
    12  federal  entity.  The operators of such transportation facilities shall,
    13  in compliance with any federal  and  state  requirements  regarding  the
    14  dissemination of such information, provide access to the director of the
    15  office  of  homeland  security  and emergency services to such audits or
    16  reports regarding such critical infrastructure provided,  however,  that
    17  exclusive  custody  and  control of such audits and reports shall remain
    18  solely with the operators of such  transportation  facilities.  For  the
    19  purposes  of  this  article,  the term "critical infrastructure" has the
    20  meaning ascribed to that term in subdivision five of section  eighty-six
    21  of the public officers law.
    22    2.  (a)  On  or before December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one,
    23  and not later than three years after such date,  and  every  five  years
    24  thereafter, the director of the office of homeland security and emergen-
    25  cy services shall report to the governor, the temporary president of the
    26  senate,  the  speaker of the assembly and the board of any such affected
    27  transportation authority.  Such report shall review the  security  meas-
    28  ures  being taken regarding critical infrastructure related to transpor-
    29  tation facilities, as defined in subdivision seventeen of section twelve
    30  hundred sixty-one of the public authorities law, assess  the  effective-
    31  ness  thereof,  and  include  recommendations  to the legislature or the
    32  metropolitan transportation authority, if the director of the office  of
    33  homeland  security  and  emergency  services  determines that additional
    34  measures  are  required  to  be  implemented,  considering  among  other
    35  factors,  the unique characteristics of each transportation facility. On
    36  or before April thirtieth, two thousand twenty-one, the director of  the
    37  office of homeland security and emergency services shall make a prelimi-
    38  nary  report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
    39  speaker of the assembly and the board of any such  affected  transporta-
    40  tion authority.
    41    (b)  Before  the receipt of such report identified in paragraph (a) of
    42  this subdivision, each recipient of such report shall develop  confiden-
    43  tiality  protocols, which shall be binding upon the recipient who issues
    44  the protocols and anyone to whom the  recipient  shows  a  copy  of  the
    45  report,  in  consultation  with  the  director of the office of homeland
    46  security and emergency services for the  maintenance  and  use  of  such
    47  report  so as to ensure the confidentiality of the report and all infor-
    48  mation contained therein, provided, however, that such  protocols  shall
    49  not  be  binding  upon a person who is provided access to such report or
    50  any information contained therein pursuant to section eighty-nine of the
    51  public officers law after a final  determination  that  access  to  such
    52  report or any information contained therein could not be denied pursuant
    53  to  subdivision  two of section eighty-seven of the public officers law.
    54  The director of the office of homeland security and  emergency  services
    55  shall  also develop protocols for his or her office related to the main-
    56  tenance and use of such report so as to ensure  the  confidentiality  of

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     1  the  report  and  all information contained therein. On each report, the
     2  director of the office of homeland security and emergency services shall
     3  prominently display the following statement: "this  report  may  contain
     4  information  that  if disclosed could endanger the life or safety of the
     5  public, and therefore, pursuant to section  seven  hundred  ten  of  the
     6  executive  law,  this  report  is  to be maintained and used in a manner
     7  consistent with protocols established to preserve the confidentiality of
     8  the information contained herein in a manner consistent with law".
     9    (c)  The  metropolitan  transportation  authority   shall   have   the
    10  discretion  to  require  that the recommendations of the director of the
    11  office of homeland security and emergency services be implemented by any
    12  operator of a transportation facility.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have have become a law.
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