Bill Text: NY S08363 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes the commissioner of addiction services and supports as a member of the disaster preparedness commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-06-17 - SIGNED CHAP.116 [S08363 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08363-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8363

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 19, 2020
                                       ___________

        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 including the  commis-
          sioner  of addiction services and supports as a member of the disaster
          preparedness commission

          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 21 of the executive law, as
     2  amended by chapter 176 of the laws  of  2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  There  is  hereby  created  in the executive department a disaster
     5  preparedness commission consisting of the commissioners  of  transporta-
     6  tion, health, division of criminal justice services, education, economic
     7  development,  agriculture  and  markets,  housing and community renewal,
     8  general services,  labor,  environmental  conservation,  mental  health,
     9  addiction  services and supports, parks, recreation and historic preser-
    10  vation, corrections  and  community  supervision,  children  and  family
    11  services,  homeland  security  and  emergency  services, and people with
    12  developmental disabilities, the president of the New York  state  energy
    13  research  and development authority, the superintendents of state police
    14  and financial services, the secretary of state, the state fire  adminis-
    15  trator,  the chair of the public service commission, the adjutant gener-
    16  al, the office of information technology services,  and  the  office  of
    17  victim services, the chairs of the thruway authority, the office for the
    18  aging,  the metropolitan transportation authority, the port authority of
    19  New York and New Jersey, the chief professional  officer  of  the  state
    20  coordinating  chapter  of  the  American  Red Cross and three additional
    21  members, to be appointed by the governor, two of  whom  shall  be  chief
    22  executives.  Each member agency may designate an executive level officer
    23  of that agency, with responsibility for disaster  preparedness  matters,
    24  who may represent that agency on the commission. The commissioner of the
    25  division  of  homeland  security  and  emergency services shall serve as
    26  chair of the commission, and the governor shall designate the vice chair

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16408-01-0
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     1  of the commission. The members of the commission, except those who serve
     2  ex officio,  shall  be  allowed  their  actual  and  necessary  expenses
     3  incurred in the performance of their duties under this article but shall
     4  receive  no  additional  compensation  for services rendered pursuant to
     5  this article.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.