Requires that the state system for warning populations who are or may be endangered includes audible alerts for all announcements to ensure that information is accessible to visually impaired individuals.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6826
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 25, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 ensuring public safety
announcements are accessible to visually impaired individuals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section
2 22 of the executive law, as amended by section 3 of part B of chapter 56
3 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
4 (3) a system for warning populations who are or may be endangered,
5 such system shall include audible alerts for all announcements to ensure
6 that information is accessible to visually impaired individuals;
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
8 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09840-01-5
