Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters

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Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters

Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters 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.

What This Bill Does

• Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters 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.

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Official Summary Text

Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters
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.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          4675

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    February 11, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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  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