Bill Text: NY S06460 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the position of an insurance liaison on the disaster preparedness commission to be appointed by the governor and serve as a non-voting member.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-23 - referred to insurance [S06460 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06460-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6460

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- 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  establishment  of
          an insurance liaison on the disaster preparedness commission

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  21  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  116  of  the  laws  of 2020, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. There is hereby created in  the  executive  department  a  disaster
     5  preparedness  commission  consisting of the commissioners of transporta-
     6  tion, health, division of criminal justice services, education, economic
     7  development, agriculture and markets,  housing  and  community  renewal,
     8  general  services,  labor,  environmental  conservation,  mental health,
     9  addiction services and supports, parks, recreation and historic  preser-
    10  vation,  corrections  and  community  supervision,  children  and family
    11  services, homeland security and  emergency  services,  and  people  with
    12  developmental  disabilities,  the president of the New York state energy
    13  research and development authority, the superintendents of state  police
    14  and  financial services, the secretary of state, the state fire adminis-
    15  trator, the chair of the public service commission, the adjutant  gener-
    16  al,  the  office  of  information technology services, and the office of
    17  victim services, the chairs of the thruway authority, the office for the
    18  aging, the metropolitan transportation authority, the port authority  of
    19  New  York  and  New  Jersey, the chief professional officer of the state
    20  coordinating chapter of the American Red Cross and  [three]  four  addi-
    21  tional  members,  to  be appointed by the governor, two of whom shall be
    22  chief executives, one of whom shall act as a liaison between  the insur-
    23  ance industry and the commission  and such liaison shall be  a  non-vot-
    24  ing  member of the commission. Each member agency may designate an exec-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10291-01-1
        S. 6460                             2

     1  utive  level  officer  of  that agency, with responsibility for disaster
     2  preparedness matters, who may represent that agency on  the  commission.
     3  The  commissioner  of  the  division  of homeland security and emergency
     4  services  shall serve as chair of the commission, and the governor shall
     5  designate the vice chair of the commission. The members of  the  commis-
     6  sion,  except  those who serve ex officio, shall be allowed their actual
     7  and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties under
     8  this article but shall receive no additional compensation  for  services
     9  rendered pursuant to this article.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    11  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    12  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    13  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    14  completed on or before such effective date.