Bill Text: NY S07932 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - referred to governmental operations [S07932 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07932-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7932

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 adding  hazardous  air
          quality to the state definition of a disaster and including air quali-
          ty  emergency preparedness in local 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. 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, tornado,  high  water,  land-
     8  slide,  mudslide, wind, storm, wave action, volcanic activity, epidemic,
     9  disease outbreak, air contamination, hazardous air  quality,  terrorism,
    10  cyber event, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, radiological acci-
    11  dent,  nuclear,  chemical, biological, or bacteriological release, water
    12  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 air quality emergencies:
    17    a.  an  action plan for the municipality in the case of an air quality
    18  emergency; and
    19    b. an annual inventory of the  municipality's  air  quality  emergency
    20  resources.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13098-01-3