Bill Text: NY A10064 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that the state system for warning populations who are or may be endangered includes audible alerts for all announcements to ensure that information in accessible to visually impaired individuals.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-02 - referred to governmental operations [A10064 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10064-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10064

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to ensuring public safety
          announcements are accessible to visually impaired individuals

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 3 of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section
     2  22 of the executive law, as amended by section 3 of part B of chapter 56
     3  of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (3) a system for warning populations who are  or  may  be  endangered,
     5  such system shall include audible alerts for all announcements to ensure
     6  that information is accessible to visually impaired individuals;
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15353-01-4