Bill Text: NY A06229 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: Enacts the "disaster preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2016"; provides for an awareness campaign for disaster preparedness during the third full week in September.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-22 - print number 6229a [A06229 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06229-Introduced.html

---

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                         6229
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 18, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "disaster
         preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2015"
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "disaster
    2  preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2015."
    3    S 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 29-k to read
    4  as follows:
    5    S 29-K. DISASTER PREPAREDNESS WEEK. 1. THE THIRD FULL WEEK OF  SEPTEM-
    6  BER  IN  EACH  YEAR  SHALL BE DESIGNATED AND IS HEREBY KNOWN AS DISASTER
    7  PREPAREDNESS WEEK IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
    8    2. THE COMMISSION SHALL  DEVELOP  A  DISASTER  PREPAREDNESS  AWARENESS
    9  CAMPAIGN  IN  CONJUNCTION WITH ANY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC NONPROFIT ORGANIZA-
   10  TIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS THAT THE DIRECTOR MAY CHOOSE, INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
   11  LIMITED  TO  THE NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES, THE ASSOCIATION
   12  OF TOWNS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, THE  NEW  YORK  STATE  CONFERENCE  OF
   13  MAYORS  AND  MUNICIPAL  OFFICIALS  AND  THE NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL BOARDS
   14  ASSOCIATION.
   15    3. DURING THE THIRD FULL WEEK OF SEPTEMBER IN EACH YEAR,  SUCH  AWARE-
   16  NESS  CAMPAIGN  SHALL  MAKE PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS UTILIZING TELE-
   17  VISION, RADIO, INTERNET AND OTHER MEDIA RESOURCES TO ASSIST CITIZENS  IN
   18  BECOMING BETTER PREPARED FOR NATURAL OR MAN-MADE DISASTERS.
   19    S  3. Paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section 21 of the executive law,
   20  as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010,  is
   21  amended to read as follows:
   22    i.  submit to the governor, the legislature and the chief judge of the
   23  state by March thirty-first of each year an annual  report  which  shall
   24  include but need not be limited to:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03507-01-5
       A. 6229                             2
    1    (1)  a  summary of commission and state agency activities for the year
    2  and plans for the ensuing year with respect to the duties and  responsi-
    3  bilities of the commission;
    4    (2)  recommendations  on ways to improve state and local capability to
    5  prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters;
    6    (3) the status of the state and local plans for disaster  preparedness
    7  and  response,  including  the  name of any locality which has failed or
    8  refused to develop and implement its own disaster preparedness plan  and
    9  program;  and  the extent to which all forms of local emergency response
   10  assets have been included, and accounted for in planning and preparation
   11  for disaster preparedness and response; [and]
   12    (4)  THE  ACTIVITIES  UNDERTAKEN  IN  PREPARATION  FOR  THE   DISASTER
   13  PREPAREDNESS  WEEK  AWARENESS CAMPAIGN AND AN OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITIES
   14  OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S DISASTER PREPAREDNESS WEEK; AND
   15    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.