S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6028 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 13, 2013 ___________ 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