Requires local disaster preparedness plans to include a public education component as part of disaster prevention, which shall be widely disseminated and shall take into consideration the linguistic and cultural characteristics of the inhabitants.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4362
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 requiring local disas-
ter preparedness plans to include a public education component as part
of disaster prevention
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 7 of section 23 of the executive
2 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 3-a to read as follows:
3 (3-a) a public education component that shall be widely disseminated,
4 as approved by the division of homeland security and emergency services
5 pursuant to regulations promulgated by such division, and shall take
6 into consideration the linguistic and cultural characteristics of the
7 inhabitants;
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
9 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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