STATE OF NEW YORK
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5351
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. LEIBELL -- 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 the establishment of
the New York state business continuity act of 2009
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York
2 state business continuity act of 2009".
3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 716 to read
4 as follows:
5 § 716. Business continuity program. The New York state office of home-
6 land security is hereby directed to conduct an investigation and study
7 on the issue of the establishment of a New York state business continui-
8 ty program. Such investigation and study shall be completed on or before
9 December thirty-first, two thousand ten. Within ninety days of the
10 completion of such investigation and study, the New York state office of
11 homeland security shall complete and deliver, to the chair of the senate
12 standing committee on veterans, homeland security and military affairs
13 and the chair of the assembly standing committee on governmental oper-
14 ations, a report on such investigation and study, containing recommenda-
15 tions to the legislature on the establishment of a New York state busi-
16 ness continuity program. Such recommendations shall include what
17 measures need to be taken by New York state to establish such a program,
18 what laws should be amended or added to establish such a program, and
19 what fiscal resources would need to be appropriated and expended, if
20 any, to establish such a program.
21 § 3. 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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