Bill Text: NY A06549 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to comprehensive emergency management plans' provisions for homecare and hospice in counties and in cities with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-21 - substituted by s5016a [A06549 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06549-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6549--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CUSICK, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, COLTON, BENEDETTO,
          JAFFEE, TITONE, COOK, HOOPER, ROSENTHAL, RAIA, WEPRIN, MOSLEY,  SKOUF-
          IS,  CAHILL,  DAVILA,  MURRAY,  PALUMBO,  RIVERA, SEPULVEDA, WALKER --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. ABBATE, ARROYO, BLAKE, GLICK,  HIKIND,
          MAGEE, PERRY, SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to provisions for home
          care and hospice in comprehensive emergency management plans
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 5 of section 23 of the executive law, as
     2  amended  by  section  4 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. Each county, except those contained within the city  of  New  York,
     5  and  each city with a population of one million or more, shall prepare a
     6  comprehensive emergency management plan. Each city with a population  of
     7  less  than  one  million,  town  and  village is authorized to prepare a
     8  comprehensive emergency management [plans] plan.  The disaster prepared-
     9  ness commission shall provide assistance and advice for the  development
    10  of  such  plans.  [City]  Each  city  with a population of less than one
    11  million, town and village [plans] plan shall  be  coordinated  with  the
    12  county plan.
    13    5.  In  preparing such plans, cooperation, advice and assistance shall
    14  be sought from local government officials, regional and  local  planning
    15  agencies,  police  agencies,  fire departments and fire companies, local
    16  emergency  management  agencies,  commercial  and  volunteer   ambulance
    17  services,  health  and social services officials, community action agen-
    18  cies, the chief administrator  of  the  courts,  organizations  for  the
    19  elderly  and  the  handicapped,  agencies and organizations that provide
    20  home health care  services,  agencies  and  organizations  that  provide
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10339-02-7
        A. 6549--A                          2
     1  hospice  services,  other interested groups and the general public. Such
     2  advice and assistance may be obtained through public  hearings  held  on
     3  public  notice,  or  through  other  appropriate  and practical methods,
     4  through  which  such  aforementioned  groups  may  offer their input for
     5  consideration on issues  that  support  the  effective  preparation  and
     6  execution  of  the  plan.  In  addition,  in  the  case of home care and
     7  hospice, such input may address procedures by which such  providers  may
     8  be granted essential access to care for such patients during an emergen-
     9  cy.
    10    §  2.  Each  county, and each city with a population of one million or
    11  more, that on the effective date of this  act  has  already  prepared  a
    12  comprehensive  emergency  management  plan shall revise such plan in the
    13  event such revisions are needed to comply with the  provisions  of  this
    14  act,  and  shall  submit  such  revised plan to the division of homeland
    15  security and emergency services on or before the one  hundred  eightieth
    16  day after the effective date of this act.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.