Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A1533A
SPONSOR: Buttenschon TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to providing minimum
basic training related to handling emergency situations involving indi-
viduals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all fire-
fighters
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This legislation would require the office of fire prevention and control
to establish best practices for firefighters to assist individuals with
disabilities.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Adds a new subdivision 23 to section 156 of the executive
law, requiring the office of fire prevention and control to provide
additional training to firefighters regarding handling emergency situ-
ations involving 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--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, EPSTEIN, HEVESI, McDONALD, SAYEGH,
SIMON, DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
mental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental
Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
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.
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