Bill Text: NY S02299 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides employers the opportunity to register for emergency alerts from the state of New York public safety alert mass notification system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-15 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4862 [S02299 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02299-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2299--A
            Cal. No. 417

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAYER, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- reported
          favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second  report,
          ordered  to  a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
          its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing  employers  with
          the opportunity to register for emergency alerts from the state of New
          York public safety alert mass notification system

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  219-d  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 219-d. Emergency alert notification system employer registration. 1.
     4  The  department,  in  consultation  with the state office of information
     5  technology services, shall provide every employer in the  state  with  a
     6  registration form which shall be created by the state office of informa-
     7  tion  technology  services,  to  voluntarily register with the emergency
     8  alert notification system. Such registration form shall  be  accompanied
     9  by a summary of the benefits of registering for alerts from the emergen-
    10  cy  alert notification system, including a description of how the use of
    11  the emergency alert system can be utilized to preserve  the  health  and
    12  safety of workers, and an example for dissemination to workers of infor-
    13  mation received from an emergency alert notification.
    14    2. For the purposes of this section, the "emergency alert notification
    15  system"  shall  mean the state office of information technology services
    16  alert system known as alert.ny.gov, or NY-Alert.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.


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