STATE OF NEW YORK
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4862
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ARDILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing employers with
the opportunity 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 employer registration. 1.
4 The department, in consultation with the state office of information
5 technology services, shall provide every employer in the state with a
6 registration form which shall be created by the state office of informa-
7 tion technology services, to voluntarily register with the emergency
8 alert notification system. Such registration form shall be accompanied
9 by a summary of the benefits of registering for alerts from the emergen-
10 cy alert notification system, including a description of how the use of
11 the emergency alert system can be utilized to preserve the health and
12 safety of workers, and an example for dissemination to workers of infor-
13 mation received from an emergency alert notification.
14 2. For the purposes of this section, the "emergency alert notification
15 system" shall mean the state office of information technology services
16 alert system known as alert.ny.gov, or NY-Alert.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04625-03-3
