Bill Text: NY S05016 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to comprehensive emergency management plans' provisions for homecare and hospice in counties and in cities with a population of one million or more.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-23 - SIGNED CHAP.385 [S05016 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05016-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5016--A Cal. No. 1068 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged and said bill committed to the Committee on Rules -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to provisions for home care and hospice in comprehensive emergency management plans The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 5 of section 23 of the executive law, as 2 amended by section 4 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, are 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. Each county, except those contained within the city of New York, 5 and each city with a population of one million or more, shall prepare a 6 comprehensive emergency management plan. Each city with a population of 7 less than one million, town and village is authorized to prepare a 8 comprehensive emergency management [plans] plan. The disaster prepared- 9 ness commission shall provide assistance and advice for the development 10 of such plans. [City] Each city with a population of less than one 11 million, town and village [plans] plan shall be coordinated with the 12 county plan. 13 5. In preparing such plans, cooperation, advice and assistance shall 14 be sought from local government officials, regional and local planning 15 agencies, police agencies, fire departments and fire companies, local 16 emergency management agencies, commercial and volunteer ambulance 17 services, health and social services officials, community action agen- 18 cies, the chief administrator of the courts, organizations for the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10339-03-7S. 5016--A 2 1 elderly and the handicapped, agencies and organizations that provide 2 home health care services, agencies and organizations that provide 3 hospice services, other interested groups and the general public. Such 4 advice and assistance may be obtained through public hearings held on 5 public notice, or through other appropriate and practical methods, 6 through which such aforementioned groups may offer their input for 7 consideration on issues that support the effective preparation and 8 execution of the plan. In addition, in the case of home care and 9 hospice, such input may address procedures by which such providers may 10 be granted essential access to care for such patients during an emergen- 11 cy. 12 § 2. Each county, and each city with a population of one million or 13 more, that on the effective date of this act has already prepared a 14 comprehensive emergency management plan shall revise such plan in the 15 event such revisions are needed to comply with the provisions of this 16 act, and shall submit such revised plan to the division of homeland 17 security and emergency services on or before the one hundred eightieth 18 day after the effective date of this act. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
