Bill Text: NY S05805 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring certain employers to register with the office of information technology services alert system to facilitate the timely distribution of information from the state concerning critical information about emergency incidents or occurrences which pose a potential imminent threat to the health or safety of the employees of such employers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S05805 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05805-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5805

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring certain  employ-
          ers to register for emergency alerts from the state of New York public
          safety alert mass notification system

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

     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  219-d  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  219-d. Emergency alert notification system required employer regis-
     4  tration. 1. Each employer located within the state that employs five  or
     5  more  employees,  shall  register  with  the state office of information
     6  technology services alert system known as alert.ny.gov to facilitate the
     7  timely distribution of information from the  state  concerning  critical
     8  information about emergency incidents or occurrences which pose a poten-
     9  tial  imminent  threat  to the health or safety of the employees of such
    10  employers.
    11    2. Each employer subject to this section,  after  receiving  an  alert
    12  notification  from  such  mass  alert notification system, shall dissem-
    13  inate, when appropriate, information relating to such notification in  a
    14  timely  manner  to each employee and shall do so through at least one of
    15  the following communication methods:
    16    (a) automated delivery of text messages;
    17    (b) phone calls; or
    18    (c) electronic mail.
    19    3. Each employer subject to this  section  shall  create  a  plan  and
    20  procedures  for  determining when dissemination of information is appro-
    21  priate, how to disseminate such information, and  any  action  that  the
    22  employer shall take in response to such information in order to preserve
    23  the health and safety of their employees.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11309-02-9