Bill Text: NY A06517 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state fire administrator to make available a specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program to provide training to individuals responsible for providing emergency response and recovery following incidents involving electric vehicles; defines emergency medical services agency.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-21 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [A06517 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6517

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a
          specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program

          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  156-i
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  156-i.  Establishment  of  a specialized electric vehicle emergency
     4  response training program. 1. The state fire administrator shall  estab-
     5  lish  a specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program
     6  for individuals responsible for providing  emergency  response  recovery
     7  following incidents involving electric vehicles. The state fire adminis-
     8  trator  shall  inform  all  fire  companies,  municipal corporations and
     9  districts, including agencies and departments thereof and all firefight-
    10  ers, both paid and volunteer, and related officers and employees, police
    11  officers, and emergency medical services agencies of the  implementation
    12  and  availability of the specialized electric vehicle emergency response
    13  training program and shall, subject to the availability of an  appropri-
    14  ation,  conduct  such  training  with  sufficient  frequency  to  ensure
    15  adequate  response  to  incidents  involving   electric   vehicles   and
    16  protection of responders in all geographic areas of the state.
    17    2.  The state fire administrator shall prescribe the curriculum of the
    18  specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program,  which
    19  shall include, but shall not be limited to, hands-on training.
    20    3.  The  state fire administrator is hereby directed to issue a report
    21  to the governor, speaker of the assembly,  temporary  president  of  the
    22  senate, chairman of the assembly transportation committee and the chair-
    23  man of the senate transportation committee by February fifteenth of each
    24  year on the operations of the program set forth in this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    4.  The state fire administrator shall promulgate such rules and regu-
     2  lations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
     3    5.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section, the term "emergency medical
     4  services agency" shall mean an agency that  provides  initial  emergency
     5  medical services including, but not limited to, the treatment of trauma,
     6  burns,  respiratory, circulatory and obstetrical emergencies, as defined
     7  in section three thousand one of the public health law.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.