STATE OF NEW YORK
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5350
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. LEIBELL -- 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 establishment of
the New York state government continuity act of 2009
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York
2 state government continuity act of 2009".
3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 716 to read
4 as follows:
5 § 716. Government continuity program. The New York state office of
6 homeland security is hereby directed to conduct an investigation and
7 study on the issue of the establishment of a New York state government
8 continuity program. Such investigation and study shall be completed on
9 or before December thirty-first, two thousand ten. Within ninety days of
10 the completion of such investigation and study, the New York state
11 office of homeland security shall complete and deliver, to the chair of
12 the senate standing committee on veterans, homeland security and mili-
13 tary affairs and the chair of the assembly standing committee on govern-
14 mental operations, a report on such investigation and study, containing
15 recommendations to the legislature on the establishment of a New York
16 state government continuity program. Such recommendations shall include
17 what measures need to be taken by New York state to establish such a
18 program, what laws should be amended or added to establish such a
19 program, and what fiscal resources would need to be appropriated and
20 expended, if any, to establish such a program.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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