Bill Text: NY A10509 | 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 14-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-06-17 - SIGNED CHAP.116 [A10509 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10509-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10509

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 22, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
          thal) -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Alcoholism  and
          Drug Abuse

        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.