Bill Text: NY S04383 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a study on the feasibility of implementing an emergency alert notification system that requires alerts to be displayed while using a video streaming service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-23 - SIGNED CHAP.381 [S04383 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04383-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4383--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sens. ALCANTARA, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer
          Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  study  the  feasibility  of implementing an emergency alert
          notification system; and providing for the repeal of  such  provisions
          upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. 1. The public service commission, hereinafter  referred  to
     2  as  "the  commission", in conjunction with the commissioner of the divi-
     3  sion of homeland security and emergency services,  and  in  consultation
     4  with  the  disaster  preparedness  commission,  and any other entity the
     5  commission and commissioner of the division  of  homeland  security  and
     6  emergency  services  deems  appropriate,  shall study the feasibility of
     7  implementing an emergency alert notification system that requires alerts
     8  to be displayed while using a video streaming service.
     9    For the purposes of this act, "video streaming service" shall mean  an
    10  entity  directly  in the business, for profit, of offering, promoting or
    11  providing access to films, television shows or other video  content  for
    12  viewing on or through the internet.
    13    2.  The  feasibility study of such emergency alert notification system
    14  shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
    15    (a) examining ways to ensure that such  emergency  alert  notification
    16  system shall convey timely information concerning emergency incidents or
    17  occurrences,  including, but not limited to severe weather, that pose an
    18  imminent threat to the health or safety of individuals in New York;
    19    (b) examining how an emergency alert notification shall  be  displayed
    20  while using a video streaming service;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08174-05-7
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     1    (c)  examining  how  internet  service  providers  and video streaming
     2  services would ensure such emergency alert notifications  are  displayed
     3  to users impacted by such emergency;
     4    (d)  examining  relevant  federal, state, and local laws, rules, regu-
     5  lations, and guidelines; and
     6    (e) recommending statutory changes, if any, to implement such emergen-
     7  cy alert notification system.
     8    3. Such feasibility study shall be  submitted  to  the  governor,  the
     9  temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly with-
    10  in  12  months  of  the effective date of this act and shall be publicly
    11  posted on the websites of the commission and the  division  of  homeland
    12  security and emergency services.
    13    4.  The  commission  and  the commissioner of the division of homeland
    14  security and emergency  services  may  request,  and  is  authorized  to
    15  receive, any information from any state or local agency that is relevant
    16  and  material to the completion of such feasibility study. Such informa-
    17  tion received by the commission and  commissioner  of  the  division  of
    18  homeland  security  and  emergency services shall be subject to the same
    19  requirements for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as  are
    20  applicable to such state or local agency's use of such information.
    21    5.  The  commission  and  the commissioner of the division of homeland
    22  security and emergency services  are  authorized  and  directed  to  use
    23  existing  commission  and  division  of  homeland security and emergency
    24  services' resources to carry out the provisions of this act.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    26  deemed repealed two years after such effective date, or upon delivery of
    27  the  feasibility study required by section one this act, whichever comes
    28  first; provided that the commissioner of the division of homeland  secu-
    29  rity  and  emergency services shall notify the legislative bill drafting
    30  commission upon delivery of the feasibility study  required  by  section
    31  one  of  this  act in order that the commission may maintain an accurate
    32  and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws  of  the
    33  state  of  New  York  in  furtherance  of effectuating the provisions of
    34  section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the  public  offi-
    35  cers law.