Establishes training and education practices for firefighters and first responders to assist and protect mobility limited and intellectually challenged individuals in emergency situations.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A1533
SPONSOR: Buttenschon TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing training
and education practices for firefighters and first responders to protect
and assist mobility limited and intellectually challenged individuals
during an emergency situation
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This legislation would require the division of homeland security and
emergency services to establish best practices for first responders and
firefighters to assist individuals with disabilities.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Amend section 709 of the executive law. Requires DHSES to
their current offerings of best practices regarding firefighter and
emergency response training and education to include skills and tech-
niques necessary to protect individuals with disabilities
Section 2. Effective Date.
JUSTIFICATION:
For too much of this nation's history, individuals with disabilities
have been overlooked in mostly every facet of our civic life. As a
result, language and direction is often not offered for or does not take
into account - individuals with disabilities within many of the most
standard of societal procedures and practices. This legislation would
ensure that first responders have access to training and best practices
on techniques to protect both mobility limited and intellectually chal-
lenged individuals during an emergency situation; it does so by requir-
ing the division of homeland security and emergency services to estab-
lish best practices for first responders and firefighters to assist
individuals with disabilities.
This legislation will lead to a safer world for individuals with disa-
bilities by ensuring that they are taken into account and not overlooked
in our planning for - and procedures during - an emergency situation.
Furthermore, the legislation will support firefighters and other first
responders by ensuring access to the standard and best practices that
they may require in an emergency situation.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-2022 A.9053 - referred to governmental operations
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
TBD.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1533
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, EPSTEIN, HEVESI -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing training
and education practices for firefighters and first responders to
protect and assist mobility limited and intellectually challenged
individuals during an emergency situation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (u) of subdivision 2 of section 709 of the execu-
2 tive law, as added by section 22 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of
3 2010, is amended to read as follows:
4 (u) Notwithstanding article six-C of this chapter, or any other
5 provision of law to the contrary, the division of homeland security and
6 emergency services shall establish best practices regarding training and
7 education for firefighters and first responders which shall include but
8 not be limited to: minimum basic training for firefighters and first
9 responders; in-service training and continuing education; minimum basic
10 training to provide firefighters and first responders with the practical
11 skills and techniques necessary to protect and assist both mobility
12 limited and intellectually challenged individuals during an emergency
13 situation; and specialized training as it may apply to the specific
14 duties of a category of emergency personnel.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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