Requires police vehicles, fire vehicles, ambulances and emergency ambulance service vehicles to be equipped with appropriate communication devices to facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6382
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to equipping certain
emergency response vehicles with appropriate communication devices for
deaf individuals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 563 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 563. Emergency response vehicles; communication devices. Every
4 police vehicle, fire vehicle, ambulance, or emergency ambulance service
5 vehicle, as such terms are defined in article one of the vehicle and
6 traffic law, shall be equipped with appropriate communication devices to
7 facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become
9 a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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