Amends the list of persons eligible to succeed the governor in the event that the governor is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor as a result of an attack or a natural or peacetime disaster and the lieutenant governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly are unable to discharge such duties.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3995
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the New York state defense emergency act, in relation to
persons eligible to succeed the governor
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 "unfore-
2 seen circumstances act".
3 § 2. Section 5 of article 1-A of chapter 784 of the laws of 1951
4 constituting the New York state defense emergency act, as amended by
5 chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as follows:
6 § 5. Persons eligible to succeed governor. If, as a result of an
7 attack or a natural or peacetime disaster, the office of governor
8 becomes vacant and each of the lieutenant governor, the temporary presi-
9 dent of the senate and the speaker of the assembly is unable to
10 discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor or is absent
11 from the state, then the officer of the state who is (a) highest in
12 order of the following list, (b) not otherwise unable to discharge such
13 powers and duties, and (c) not absent from the state, shall act as
14 governor: attorney general, comptroller, commissioner of transporta-
15 tion, commissioner of health, commissioner of [commerce] economic devel-
16 opment, [industrial] commissioner of labor, [chairman] chairperson of
17 the public service commission, [secertary] secretary of state.
18 § 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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