STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6229--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 18, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- 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 enacting the "disaster
          preparedness week and awareness campaign act of 2016"
          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 2016."
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 29-l to read
     4  as follows:
     5    §  29-l. 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    § 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:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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