Bill Text: NY S04175 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Includes extreme winter weather preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans; updates the definition of "disaster".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S04175 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04175-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4175

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  including  extreme
          winter  weather  preparedness in local comprehensive emergency manage-
          ment plans

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 20 of the executive
     2  law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    a. "disaster" means occurrence or imminent, impending or urgent threat
     5  of  wide  spread  or  severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property
     6  resulting from any natural or man-made causes, including, but not limit-
     7  ed to, fire,  flood,  earthquake,  hurricane,  extreme  winter  weather,
     8  tornado,  high  water,  landslide,  mudslide,  wind, storm, wave action,
     9  volcanic  activity,  epidemic,  disease  outbreak,  air   contamination,
    10  terrorism,  cyber event, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, radio-
    11  logical accident,  nuclear,  chemical,  biological,  or  bacteriological
    12  release, water contamination, bridge failure or bridge collapse.
    13    § 2. Section 23 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdi-
    14  vision 8 to read as follows:
    15    8.  Such  plans shall additionally include, but not be limited to, the
    16  following regarding extreme winter weather:
    17    a. evacuation plans and  sheltering-in-place  plans  in  the  case  of
    18  extreme winter weather, such plans should include how to deal with tran-
    19  sit networks, utilities, and community warming centers; and
    20    b.  an  annual  inventory of the municipality's extreme winter weather
    21  equipment, such inventory shall include the age and  condition  of  such
    22  equipment.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07921-01-3
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