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A01479 Summary:

BILL NOA01479 

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Requires counties to maintain a confidential registry of people of all ages with disabilities for the purpose of evacuating and sheltering such persons during disasters.

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01/10/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1479

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring counties to
 maintain a confidential registry of people of all ages with disabili-
 ties for evacuation and sheltering during disasters

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

 1 Section 1. Section 23-a of the executive law, as added by chapter 658
 2 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 23-a. [County] Confidential county registry of [disabled persons]
 4 people of all ages with disabilities, as that term is defined in subdi-
 5 vision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of this chapter;
 6 notice. 1. In each county having a local [disaster preparedness]
 7 comprehensive emergency management plan pursuant to section twenty-three
 8 of this article, in order to meet the special needs of persons of all
 9 ages with disabilities who would need assistance during evacuations and
 10 sheltering because of physical or mental [handicaps] disabilities, it
 11 [is recommended] shall be required that each chief executive maintain a
 12 confidential registry of [disabled persons] people of all ages with
 13 disabilities located within the county. People of all ages with disa-
 14 bilities shall be given the option to be included in the registry. The
 15 [registration] registry shall identify those persons in need of assist-
 16 ance and plan for resource allocation to meet those identified needs.
 17 To assist the chief executive in identifying such persons, the county
 18 department of health, [or] and the county department of social services,
 19 the county department of mental health, such other county department or
 20 agency as designated by the chief executive, shall provide [voluntary]
 21 information about the registry and the registration [information] proc-
 22 ess to all of its [special needs clients] consumers of all ages with
 23 disabilities and to all incoming [clients] consumers as part of the
 24 intake process. The registry shall be updated annually. The registra-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03518-01-5

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 1 tion program shall give [disabled persons] such people of all ages with
 2 disabilities the option of pre-authorizing emergency response personnel
 3 to enter their homes during search and rescue operations if necessary to
 4 assure their safety and welfare during disasters.
 5 2. Upon the establishment of a [voluntary] confidential registry of
 6 [disabled persons] people of all ages with disabilities as provided in
 7 subdivision one of this section, the chief executive shall make such
 8 registry available to the appropriate county, state and federal agencies
 9 for their use in delivering services in the event of a local or state
 10 disaster. The chief executive shall, upon [the] request [of the state
 11 emergency management office], provide such registry information to
 12 [such] the state emergency management office, provided that the confi-
 13 dentiality of such information is preserved. The chief executive may,
 14 at [his] such chief executive's discretion, use the registry information
 15 for local disaster preparedness [only] in coordination with other poli-
 16 tical subdivisions of the state, provided that the confidentiality of
 17 such information is preserved.
 18 3. Upon the establishment of a [voluntary] con