Bill Text: NY A00688 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 688

Introduced

Bill Title: Empowers the office of fire prevention and control to, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer, provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00688 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00688-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           688

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON,  DeSTEFANO,  EPSTEIN,  HEVESI,
          PHEFFER AMATO, SAYEGH, SIMON -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to providing minimum
          basic training related  to  handling  emergency  situations  involving
          individuals  with  any physical and/or developmental disability to all
          firefighters

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.    Section 156 of the executive law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 23 to read as follows:
     3    23. In addition to the requirements of subdivision twenty-two of  this
     4  section,  in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people
     5  with  developmental  disabilities  and  the  chief  disability  officer,
     6  provide  minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations
     7  involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental  disability
     8  to all firefighters, both paid and volunteer. The office shall adopt all
     9  necessary rules and regulations relating to such training.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02082-01-5