Directs the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services to conduct an after-action review study on the state's COVID-19 pandemic response; directs the commissioner to submit a report on such study after 1 year and make such report publicly available on its website, and share such report with the CDC.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5718--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 15, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT directing the commissioner of the division of homeland security
and emergency services to conduct a study on the state's COVID-19
pandemic response
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of the division of homeland security and
2 emergency services shall conduct an after-action review study of New
3 York state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such study shall explore
4 every facet of New York state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic,
5 including, but not limited to, the level of success or failure of each
6 approach taken by all state and local governmental entities that took
7 specific action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including but not
8 limited to, actions of authorities and implementation of operations,
9 logistics, resource management, communications, policies, and such state
10 and local governmental entities' relationships with the centers for
11 disease control and prevention.
12 § 2. No later than one year after the effective date of this act, the
13 commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services
14 shall submit a report on the findings of the study under section one of
15 this act to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
16 speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the
17 minority leader of the assembly. Such report shall be divided into the
18 following three sections: (i) an identification of the issue or issues;
19 (ii) a discussion of such issue or issues; and (iii) recommendations to
20 mitigate the effects of any potential future pandemics. Such report
21 shall also be made public on the division of homeland security and emer-
22 gency services' website and shared with the federal centers for disease
23 control and prevention.
24 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
25 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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