Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7932
IN SENATE
January 3, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 adding hazardous air
quality to the state definition of a disaster and including air quali-
ty emergency preparedness in local 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. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 20 of the executive
2 law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 a. "disaster" means occurrence or imminent, impending or urgent threat
5 of wide spread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property
6 resulting from any natural or man-made causes, including, but not limit-
7 ed to, fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, high water, land-
8 slide, mudslide, wind, storm, wave action, volcanic activity, epidemic,
9 disease outbreak, air contamination, hazardous air quality, terrorism,
10 cyber event, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, radiological acci-
11 dent, nuclear, chemical, biological, or bacteriological release, water
12 contamination, bridge failure or bridge collapse.
13 § 2. Section 23 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdi-
14 vision 8 to read as follows:
15 8. Such plans shall additionally include, but not be limited to, the
16 following regarding air quality emergencies:
17 a. an action plan for the municipality in the case of an air quality
18 emergency; and
19 b. an annual inventory of the municipality's air quality emergency
20 resources.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13098-01-3
