Bill Text: NY A07177 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the division of homeland security and emergency services to establish a statewide planning and mapping system of educational institutions in this state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A07177 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07177-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7177
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 10, 2019
                                       ___________
        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  public  safety  and
          requiring  the division of homeland security and emergency services to
          establish a statewide planning and mapping  system  for  the  schools,
          colleges and universities of the state
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 719 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 719. Statewide critical incident mapping and planning system.  1. To
     4  the extent that funds are made available, the division of homeland secu-
     5  rity and emergency services shall establish  a  statewide  planning  and
     6  mapping  system for the public and private schools, colleges and univer-
     7  sities in this state for use by response agencies  that  are  called  to
     8  respond to an act of terrorism, criminal attack, or related emergency.
     9    2.  The  statewide  planning  and mapping system must include, without
    10  limitation:
    11    a. the type of information that must be included within  the  software
    12  program  that comprises the system, including, without limitation, floor
    13  plans, fire protection information, building evacuation  plans,  utility
    14  information,  known hazards, and information on how to contact emergency
    15  personnel;
    16    b. the manner by which information prescribed pursuant to paragraph  a
    17  of  this  subdivision  must  be transferred to the system from the state
    18  agencies and the political subdivisions that participate in the system;
    19    c. standards for the software that must be used by state agencies  and
    20  political subdivisions that participate in the system;
    21    d. conditions for use of the system by response agencies;
    22    e.  guidelines for (i) the accessibility and confidentiality of infor-
    23  mation contained within the  system;  and  (ii)  the  incorporation,  in
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  connection  with  the use of the system, of the items described in para-
     2  graph b of subdivision three of this section;
     3    f.  a  list  of  priority,  determined  in accordance with information
     4  obtained by the division of homeland security  and  emergency  services,
     5  for  the  distribution  of any money that may be available for the state
     6  agencies and political subdivisions to participate in the system; and
     7    g. guidelines recommended by the division  of  homeland  security  and
     8  emergency  services  for  the  training  of persons employed by response
     9  agencies concerning the use of the system.
    10    3. To the extent money is made available, the state agencies and poli-
    11  tical subdivisions shall:
    12    a. participate in the statewide planning and mapping system; and
    13    b. incorporate into their use of the system, without limitation:
    14    (i) evacuation routes and strategies for evacuation;
    15    (ii) alarms and other signals or means of notification;
    16    (iii) plans for sheltering in place; and
    17    (iv) training and strategies for prevention in connection with attacks
    18  involving violence.
    19    If a state agency or political subdivision uses its own  planning  and
    20  mapping  system  before  the division of homeland security and emergency
    21  services establishes a statewide planning and mapping system, the  state
    22  agency  or  political  subdivision may continue to use its system unless
    23  money is made available for the state agency or political subdivision to
    24  update or modify its system as necessary for inclusion in the  statewide
    25  system.
    26    4.  The  division  of  homeland  security and emergency services shall
    27  pursue any money that may be available from the federal  government  for
    28  the development and operation of a statewide planning and mapping system
    29  for  public  and  private schools, colleges and universities and for the
    30  distribution of grants to the state agencies and political  subdivisions
    31  that  participate  in  the system. The division of homeland security and
    32  emergency services may accept gifts, grants, and other contributions for
    33  the development and  operation  of  a  statewide  planning  and  mapping
    34  system.
    35    5.  Each  state  agency and political subdivision that participates in
    36  the system shall, on or before July first, two thousand twenty-one,  and
    37  on  or before July first each year thereafter, submit to the division of
    38  homeland security and  emergency  services  a  progress  report  setting
    39  forth, in accordance with regulations adopted by the division, the expe-
    40  rience  of  the  agency  or  political  subdivision, as applicable, with
    41  respect to its participation in the system.  The  division  of  homeland
    42  security  and emergency services shall receive and process such progress
    43  reports and provide to the legislature  a  summarized  overview  of  the
    44  system  on  or  before  October first, two thousand twenty-one, and each
    45  October first thereafter.
    46    6. After the statewide planning  and  mapping  system  is  established
    47  pursuant  to  this  section, each state agency and political subdivision
    48  that participates in the system shall submit to the division of homeland
    49  security and emergency services any initial or final plan for  a  public
    50  work project.
    51    7. As used in this section:
    52    a.  "act  of  terrorism"  shall  have  the  same meaning as defined in
    53  section 490.05 of the penal law.
    54    b.  "criminal attack" shall mean any violent felony offense as defined
    55  by section 70.02 of the penal  law,  committed  against  more  than  two
    56  persons at a public or private school.
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     1    c.  "political  subdivision"  means  any  county, city, town, village,
     2  special district or school district.
     3    d.  "response  agency" means the departments of fire, police, environ-
     4  mental protection, health, transportation and sanitation, and the  divi-
     5  sion  of  emergency  medical services of the health and hospitals corpo-
     6  ration.
     7    e. "sheltering in place" means to  remain  inside  a  building,  room,
     8  structure,  or  other  location  during  an emergency when egress may be
     9  impossible or when egress may  present  a  more  substantial  risk  than
    10  remaining inside the building, room, structure, or other location.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.