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Relates to comprehensive emergency management plans' provisions for homecare and hospice in counties and in cities with a population of one million or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6549--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, COLTON, BENEDETTO,
JAFFEE, TITONE, COOK, HOOPER, ROSENTHAL, RAIA, WEPRIN, MOSLEY, SKOUF-
IS, CAHILL, DAVILA, MURRAY, PALUMBO, RIVERA, SEPULVEDA, WALKER --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ARROYO, BLAKE, GLICK, HIKIND,
MAGEE, PERRY, SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to provisions for home
care and hospice in comprehensive emergency management plans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 5 of section 23 of the executive law, as
2 amended by section 4 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, are
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. Each county, except those contained within the city of New York,
5 and each city with a population of one million or more, shall prepare a
6 comprehensive emergency management plan. Each city with a population of
7 less than one million, town and village is authorized to prepare a
8 comprehensive emergency management [plans] plan. The disaster prepared-
9 ness commission shall provide assistance and advice for the development
10 of such plans. [City] Each city with a population of less than one
11 million, town and village [plans] plan shall be coordinated with the
12 county plan.
13 5. In preparing such plans, cooperation, advice and assistance shall
14 be sought from local government officials, regional and local planning
15 agencies, police agencies, fire departments and fire companies, local
16 emergency management agencies, commercial and volunteer ambulance
17 services, health and social services officials, community action agen-
18 cies, the chief administrator of the courts, organizations for the
19 elderly and the handicapped, agencies and organizations that provide
20 home health care services, agencies and organizations that provide
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 hospice services, other interested groups and the general public. Such
2 advice and assistance may be obtained through public hearings held on
3 public notice, or through other appropriate and practical methods,
4 through which such aforementioned groups may offer their input for
5 consideration on issues that support the effective preparation and
6 execution of the plan. In addition, in the case of home care and
7 hospice, such input may address procedures by which such providers may
8 be granted essential access to care for such patients during an emergen-
9 cy.
10 § 2. Each county, and each city with a population of one million or
11 more, that on the effective date of this act has already prepared a
12 comprehensive emergency management plan shall revise such plan in the
13 event such revisions are needed to comply with the provisions of this
14 act, and shall submit such revised plan to the division of homeland
15 security and emergency services on or before the one hundred eightieth
16 day after the effective date of this act.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
