New York Senate Bill S04664 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4664 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 requiring elementary and secondary schools to close in the event the governor declares a state of emergency related to the weather in any city having a popu- lation of one million or more The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 27-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 27-a. Weather related state of emergency. Whenever the governor, on 4 his or her own initiative or pursuant to a request from the mayor of a 5 city having a population of one million or more, finds that a state of 6 emergency exists because of the imminent or existing weather conditions 7 in a city having a population of one million or more, he or she shall 8 declare a weather related state of emergency by executive order. Upon 9 such a declaration all public and private elementary and secondary 10 schools in such city shall be closed and remain closed until such state 11 of emergency is terminated. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08709-01-3