Bill Text: NY S05297 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any city having a population of 500,000 or more use the best technology available, including computer models, to develop evacuation time estimates, which shall be used to complete such plan; requires the state emergency management office to assist therewith; requires such time estimates to be made available to the public, unless the state emergency management office declares that there is a compelling security reason to withhold such information from the public.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S05297 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05297-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5297
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 3, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  BALL  --  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  the  local  disaster
         preparedness plans of a city having a population of five hundred thou-
         sand or more inhabitants
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 23 of the executive law is amended by adding a  new
    2  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    3    1-A.  IN  THE  EVENT THAT ANY CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF FIVE HUNDRED
    4  THOUSAND OR MORE INHABITANTS  PREPARES  A  LOCAL  DISASTER  PREPAREDNESS
    5  PLAN,  SUCH  PLAN SHALL USE THE UP-TO-DATE INDUSTRY STANDARD OR THE BEST
    6  TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE, INCLUDING COMPUTER MODELS, TO  DEVELOP  EVACUATION
    7  TIME  ESTIMATES, WHICH SHALL BE USED TO COMPLETE SUCH PLAN. IN THE EVENT
    8  THAT ANY SUCH CITY HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED SUCH A PLAN, SUCH PLAN SHALL BE
    9  REVISED TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION,
   10  UNLESS THE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COMMISSION, AS DEFINED IN  PARAGRAPH  D
   11  OF  SUBDIVISION  TWO  OF SECTION TWENTY OF THIS ARTICLE, DETERMINES THAT
   12  SUCH PLAN IS ALREADY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS  SUBDIVI-
   13  SION.  SAID  DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COMMISSION SHALL ASSIST ANY SUCH CITY
   14  WITH THE DEVELOPMENT THEREOF.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   16  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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