New York A 9056: Requires emergency alerts to be issued in the ten most commonly spoken languages in the area covered by such emergency alert

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A09056 Summary:

BILL NOA09056 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORGonzalez-Rojas

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §22, Exec L; amd §30-115, NYC Ad Cd

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Requires emergency alerts to be issued in the ten most commonly spoken languages in the area covered by such emergency alert.

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BILL NOA09056 

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09/05/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9056

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 September 5, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the administrative code of the
 city of New York, in relation to requiring emergency alerts to be
 issued in the ten most commonly spoken languages in the area covered
 by such emergency alert

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section
 2 22 of the executive law, as amended by section 3 of part B of chapter 56
 3 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (3) a system for warning populations who are or may be endangered. Any
 5 emergency alert issued through e-mail, text, phone, social media plat-
 6 form, or internet-based feed shall be issued in no fewer than the ten
 7 most commonly spoken languages within the area covered by such emergency
 8 alert. Such notifications shall be separated into distinct messages in
 9 separate feeds for each language. A general version of each notification
 10 may be used when a real-time translation is unavailable, provided that
 11 priority shall be placed upon making notifications available with the
 12 greatest specificity possible;
 13 § 2. Section 30-115 of the administrative code of the city of New
 14 York, as added by local law number 31 of the city of New York for the
 15 year 2017, is amended to read as follows:
 16 § 30-115 Emergency notifications. a. Any emergency alert originated by
 17 a city office or city agency that is issued through a commercial mobile
 18 service alert system established pursuant to section 1201 of title 47 of
 19 the United States code shall, to the extent practicable and to the
 20 extent permissible under regulations enacted pursuant to such section,
 21 be issued in no fewer than the [two] ten most commonly spoken languages
 22 within the area covered by the emergency alert as determined by the
 23 commissioner in consultation with the department of city planning,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13630-01-5

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 1 provided that this subdivision does not require the issuance of an emer-
 2 gency alert in a language if exigent circumstances prohibit the issuance
 3 of an alert in such language.
 4 b. Any emergency notification system operated and controlled by the
 5 office of emergency management for the purposes of aggregating informa-
 6 tion obtained from other offices or agencies to inform the public about
 7 emergencies or disruptive events through e-mail, text, phone, social
 8 media platform, or internet-based feed shall offer each notification in
 9 no fewer than the [seven] ten most commonly spoken languages within the
 10 city as determined by the commissioner in consultation with the depart-
 11 ment of city planning, provided that this requirement shall not delay or
 12 prohibit the immediate issuance of notifications in any individual
 13 language. Notifications shall be separated into distinct messages in
 14 separate feeds for each language. A general version of each notification
 15 may be used when a real-time translation is unavailable, provided that
 16 priority shall be placed upon making notifications available with the
 17 greatest specificity possible. Any dissemination limitation applicable
 18 to an English language notification may be applied to its equivalent
 19 notification in another language. If no potential re