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S5729 • 2025

Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster and includes air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans

Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster and includes air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans

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Sponsor
Pete Harckham
Last action
2026-06-01
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster and includes air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans

Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster and includes air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.

What This Bill Does

  • Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster and includes air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-01 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-06-01 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-06-01 Assembly

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

  4. 2026-05-20 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-05-19 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  6. 2026-05-18 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.1160

  7. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  8. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  9. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

  10. 2025-06-11 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  11. 2025-06-11 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  12. 2025-06-11 Assembly

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

  13. 2025-06-04 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  14. 2025-05-29 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  15. 2025-05-28 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.1370

  16. 2025-02-28 Senate

    REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Official Summary Text

Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster and includes air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans
Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          5729

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    February 28, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
          land Security 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] HUMAN-MADE  causes,  including,
     7  but  not  limited  to, fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, high
     8  water, landslide, mudslide, wind, storm, wave action, volcanic activity,
     9  epidemic, disease outbreak, air contamination,  HAZARDOUS  AIR  QUALITY,
    10  terrorism,  cyber event, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, radio-
    11  logical accident,  nuclear,  chemical,  biological,  or  bacteriological
    12  release, water 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.
                                                                   LBD10455-01-5