Bill Text: NY S01715 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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) 2016-01-14 - PRINT NUMBER 1715A [S01715 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01715-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1715--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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. LBD03507-02-6