Relates to requiring the department of labor to provide employers with an opportunity to register for the office of information technology services alert system to facilitate the timely distribution of information from the state concerning critical information about emergency incidents or occurrences which pose a potential imminent threat to the health or safety of the employees of such employers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3946--A
Cal. No. 1080
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 1, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. MAYER, GAUGHRAN, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor --
recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accordance with Senate Rule
6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
and second report, amended on second report, ordered to a third read-
ing, and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in the order
of third reading
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 provided to
9 employers by mail or in electronic format, and shall be accompanied by a
10 summary of the benefits of registering for alerts from the emergency
11 alert notification system, including a description of how the use of the
12 emergency alert system can be utilized to preserve the health and safety
13 of workers, and an example for dissemination to workers of information
14 received from an emergency alert notification.
15 2. For the purposes of this section, the "emergency alert notification
16 system" shall mean the state office of information technology services
17 alert system known as alert.ny.gov, or NY-Alert.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02693-03-2
