Bill Text: NY S06692 | 2015-2016 | 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-28 - VETOED MEMO.279 [S06692 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06692-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6692--B IN SENATE February 5, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LANZA, CROCI, GALLIVAN, HANNON, PERSAUD, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. Subdivision 1 of section 23 of the executive law, as 2 amended by section 4 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is 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 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 23 of the executive law, as amended by 14 section 4 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is amended to 15 read as follows: 16 5. In preparing such plans, cooperation, advice and assistance shall 17 be sought from local government officials, regional and local planning 18 agencies, police agencies, fire departments and fire companies, local 19 emergency management agencies, commercial and volunteer ambulance 20 services, health and social services officials, community action agen- 21 cies, the chief administrator of the courts, organizations for the 22 elderly and the handicapped, agencies and organizations that provide EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01699-11-6S. 6692--B 2 1 home health care services, agencies and organizations that provide 2 hospice services, other interested groups and the general public. Such 3 advice and assistance may be obtained through public hearings held on 4 public notice, or through other appropriate and practical methods. 5 § 3. Subparagraphs 17 and 18 of paragraph b of subdivision 7 of 6 section 23 of the executive law, as amended by section 4 of part B of 7 chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, are amended and a new subparagraph 19 is 8 added to read as follows: 9 (17) continued operation of governments of political subdivisions; 10 [and] 11 (18) utilization and coordination of programs to assist individuals 12 with household pets and service animals following a disaster, with 13 particular attention to means of evacuation, shelter and transportation 14 options[.]; and 15 (19) procedures for allowing access by physicians, nurses, other 16 medical professionals, personnel of certified home health agencies, long 17 term home health care programs or licensed home care services agencies 18 governed under article thirty-six of the public health law, and person- 19 nel of hospices certified pursuant to article forty of the public health 20 law or any other personnel deemed necessary to provide vital health care 21 to individuals in their care; such procedures shall also address how 22 such professionals and personnel will be required to be identified in 23 order to gain access to areas where access has otherwise been restricted 24 or subject to curfew in declared emergencies. Such procedures shall 25 ensure that access by such professionals and personnel in areas where 26 access has otherwise been restricted or subject to curfew shall not be 27 construed to prohibit local emergency management officials from denying 28 such access when in their discretion conditions necessitate such a 29 denial. 30 § 4. Each county, and each city with a population of one million or 31 more, that on the effective date of this act has already prepared a 32 comprehensive emergency management plan shall revise such plan in the 33 event such revisions are needed to comply with the provisions of this 34 act, and shall submit such revised plan to the division of homeland 35 security and emergency services on or before the one hundred eightieth 36 day after the effective date of this act. 37 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
