Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3190--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 30, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. MANNION, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
land Security and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on
Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and
committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing minimum
basic training related to handling emergency situations involving
individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all
firefighters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 156 of the executive law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 23 to read as follows:
3 23. In addition to the requirements of subdivision twenty-two of this
4 section, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people
5 with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer,
6 provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations
7 involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability
8 to all firefighters, both paid and volunteer. The office shall adopt all
9 necessary rules and regulations relating to such training.
10 § 2. 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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