New York S 232: Adds elderly persons to disaster preparedness registries and creates a state emergency assistance database

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
S00232 Summary:

BILL NOS00232 

&nbsp

SAME ASNo Same As

&nbsp

SPONSORTEDISCO

&nbsp

COSPNSR

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §23-a, Exec L

&nbsp

Adds elderly persons to disaster preparedness registries; creates a state emergency assistance database; provides that the disaster preparedness commission shall establish the state emergency assistance database; provides that all records relating to SEAD shall be confidential and the commission shall not be liable for any claim based upon a good faith exercise or performance of duty.

Go to top S00232 Actions:

BILL NOS00232 

&nbsp

01/08/2025REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Go to topS00232 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topS00232 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topS00232 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 232

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- 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 adding elderly persons
 to disaster preparedness registries and creating a state emergency
 assistance database

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

 1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of
 2 section 23-a of the executive law, as added by chapter 658 of the laws
 3 of 1996, are amended to read as follows:
 4 County registry of elderly or disabled persons; notice. 1. In each
 5 county having a local disaster preparedness plan pursuant to section
 6 twenty-three of this article, in order to meet the special needs of
 7 persons who would need assistance during evacuations or other emergency
 8 situations and sheltering because of physical or mental handicaps, [it
 9 is recommended that] or whose ability to care for themselves during an
 10 emergency situation is adversely affected by advanced age, or permanent
 11 or temporary medical condition, each chief executive shall maintain a
 12 registry of elderly or disabled persons located within the county. The
 13 registration shall identify those persons in need of assistance and plan
 14 for resource allocation to meet those identified needs. To assist the
 15 chief executive in identifying such persons, the county department of
 16 health, or such other county department or agency as designated by the
 17 chief executive, shall provide voluntary registration information to all
 18 of its special needs clients and to all incoming clients as part of the
 19 intake process. The registry shall be updated annually at a minimum.
 20 The registration program shall give elderly or disabled persons the
 21 option of pre-authorizing emergency response personnel to enter their
 22 homes during search and rescue operations if necessary to assure their
 23 safety and welfare during disasters.
 24 2. Upon the establishment of a voluntary registry of elderly or disa-
 25 bled persons as provided in subdivision one of this section, the chief

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00891-01-5

 S. 232 2

 1 executive shall make such registry available to the appropriate county,
 2 state and federal agencies for their use in delivering services in the
 3 event of a local or state disaster. The chief executive shall[, upon the
 4 request of the state emergency management office,] provide such registry
 5 information to [such office] the state emergency management office,
 6 including all annual updates to such registry information, for placement
 7 in the State Emergency Assistance Database. The chief executive may, at
 8 [his] the chief executive's discretion, use the registry information for
 9 local disaster preparedness only in coordination with other political
 10 subdivisions of the state.
 11 3. Upon the establishment of a voluntary registry of elderly or disa-
 12 bled persons as provided in subdivision one of this section, at least
 13 semi-annually, each chief executive shall cause to be publ