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                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 13, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring local disas-
         ter preparedness plans to include a public education component as part
         of disaster prevention
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 7 of section 23 of the executive
    2  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 3-a to read as follows:
    3    (3-A)  A PUBLIC EDUCATION COMPONENT THAT SHALL BE WIDELY DISSEMINATED,
    4  AS APPROVED BY THE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY  SERVICES
    5  PURSUANT  TO  REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED  BY SUCH DIVISION, AND SHALL TAKE
    6  INTO CONSIDERATION THE LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL  CHARACTERISTICS  OF  THE
    7  INHABITANTS;
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    9  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07279-01-3