Bill Text: NY A10508 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10508

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires police vehicles, fire vehicles, ambulances and emergency ambulance service vehicles to be equipped with appropriate communication devices to facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-29 - referred to local governments [A10508 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10508-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10508

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 29, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lavine) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  equipping  certain
          emergency response vehicles with appropriate communication devices for
          deaf individuals

          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 563 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 563.  Emergency  response  vehicles;  communication  devices.  Every
     4  police  vehicle, fire vehicle, ambulance, or emergency ambulance service
     5  vehicle, as such terms are defined in article one  of  the  vehicle  and
     6  traffic law, shall be equipped with appropriate communication devices to
     7  facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals.
     8    §  2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become
     9  a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15602-02-4