Provides that any system for warning populations who are or may be endangered and for rapid and effective communication for any New York emergency alert notification shall occur within thirty minutes, or as soon as practicable thereafter.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8998
IN SENATE
April 8, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 timing of emergen-
cy public safety alerts in the event of a disaster or state disaster
emergency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs 3 and 5 of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of
2 section 22 of the executive law, as amended by section 3 of part B of
3 chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as follows:
4 (3) a system for warning populations who are or may be endangered,
5 including the issuance of public safety alerts by the New York emergency
6 alert notification system or "NY-Alert" within thirty minutes of a
7 disaster or state disaster emergency, or as soon as practicable there-
8 after;
9 (5) a specific plan for rapid and efficient communication, including
10 the issuance of public safety alerts by the New York emergency alert
11 notification system or "NY-Alert" within thirty minutes of a disaster or
12 state disaster emergency, or as soon as practicable thereafter, and for
13 the integration of state communication facilities during a state disas-
14 ter emergency, including the assignment of responsibilities and the
15 establishment of communication priorities, and liaison with municipal,
16 private and federal communication facilities;
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15158-01-4
