Bill Text: NY S07441 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires sign language interpreters during live broadcast press conferences during a declared state of emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S07441 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07441-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7441

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 15, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend  the  executive  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  sign
          language interpreters during live broadcast press conferences during a
          declared state of emergency

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new  section  29-l
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 29-l. Declaration of emergency, broadcast requirements. Whenever the
     4  governor  has  declared a disaster emergency pursuant to section twenty-
     5  eight of this article, or the chief executive of the county, or where  a
     6  county  is  wholly  contained  within a city, the chief executive of the
     7  city, has proclaimed a local state  of  emergency  pursuant  to  section
     8  twenty-four  of this article, the chief executive must provide an Ameri-
     9  can Sign Language qualified interpreter who is certified by a recognized
    10  national or New York state credentialing authority at every live  broad-
    11  cast  press  conference  during the declared state of emergency or local
    12  state of emergency. To the greatest extent possible, the chief executive
    13  shall ensure that the sign  language  interpreter  shall  be  physically
    14  positioned  in  a  manner that his or her face, body, arms and hands are
    15  visible in the video transmission of the press conference at all times.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05177-01-1