A10366 Summary:

BILL NOA10366
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORRules (Lavine)
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §559, Exec L
 
Requires the state interagency coordinating council for services to persons who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard of hearing to develop and implement a training program to educate first responders on effective communication with deaf and hard of hearing individuals in emergency situations.
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A10366 Actions:

BILL NOA10366
 
05/21/2024referred to governmental operations
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A10366 Committee Votes:

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A10366 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A10366 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          10366
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 21, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lavine) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  requiring  the  state
          interagency coordinating council for services to persons who are deaf,
          deaf-blind,  or  hard  of  hearing to develop and implement a training
          program to educate first responders on  effective  communication  with
          deaf and hard of hearing individuals in emergency situations
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "deaf and hard of hearing emergency communications act".
     3    §  2.  Section  559  of  the  executive law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     5    6. The state interagency coordinating council for services to  persons
     6  who  are  deaf,  deaf-blind,  or hard of hearing shall, in collaboration
     7  with the department of health, develop  and  implement  a  comprehensive
     8  language  access  training  program  for  first  responders, designed to
     9  educate first responders on strategies to communicate  effectively  with
    10  deaf  and  hard of hearing individuals in emergency situations. In addi-
    11  tion to  developing  and  implementing  such  language  access  training
    12  program, the state interagency coordinating council shall:
    13    (a)  create  and distribute informational materials, including but not
    14  limited to brochures or pamphlets, to educate the general public on  how
    15  to  communicate  effectively  with  deaf and hard of hearing individuals
    16  during emergencies;
    17    (b) establish a system to allow deaf and hard of  hearing  individuals
    18  to  provide  feedback  on their experiences with first responders and to
    19  suggest potential improvements to the language access training program;
    20    (c) conduct regular reviews and evaluations of  the  effectiveness  of
    21  the language access training program for first responders and any neces-
    22  sary changes to the program to ensure its ongoing improvement;
    23    (d)  develop and implement a system for tracking and documenting inci-
    24  dents involving deaf and hard of hearing individuals to identify trends,
    25  challenges, and areas for improvement; and
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15611-01-4

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     1    (e) establish a protocol for dispatch centers to efficiently  identify
     2  and  relay  information  about  a  deaf  or hard of hearing individual's
     3  communication preferences to responding first responders.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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