New York Senate Bill S07932 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7932  IN SENATE January 3, 2024 ___________ 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