Bill Text: NY A08952 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to direct dialing to public service answering points.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - SIGNED CHAP.73 [A08952 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08952-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8952

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 6, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to direct dialing to
          public service answering points

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 717-a of the executive law,
     2  as  added  by  a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the executive law
     3  relating to direct  dialing  to  public  service  answering  points,  as
     4  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4756 and A. 458, are amended to
     5  read as follows:
     6    3. All public buildings which operate on a multi-line telephone system
     7  in  this state must configure their multi-line telephone system hardware
     8  to allow any call to 911 on the system to be  directly  connected  to  a
     9  public  service  answering  point; provided however, that in the case of
    10  public buildings governed by section three  hundred  fifty-five  or  six
    11  thousand  two  hundred  four  of  the education law which have on-campus
    12  emergency answering points, such public buildings  may  route  such  911
    13  calls to their on-campus answering points.
    14    4.  The  requirements  of  subdivision three of this section shall not
    15  apply to any public building operating on a multi-line telephone  system
    16  that  would  be  required  to  upgrade  the  hardware of their telephone
    17  network to meet said requirement. However, every telephone in any exempt
    18  public building operating on a multi-line telephone system  shall  place
    19  an  instructional  sticker  on or immediately adjacent to each telephone
    20  informing users of the phone's inability to directly dial  911  and  the
    21  procedures to follow to connect to a 911 public service answering point,
    22  or  in  the  case  of public buildings governed by section three hundred
    23  fifty-five or six thousand two hundred four of the education  law  which
    24  have  on-campus  emergency  answering  points,  such on-campus answering
    25  points, in case of an emergency.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    27  manner  as  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2019, amending the executive law

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00608-02-0
        A. 8952                             2

     1  relating to direct  dialing  to  public  service  answering  points,  as
     2  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4756 and A. 458, takes effect.