New York A 7036: Increases penalties for violation of overtaking and passing a school bus and creates the crime of vehicular homicide in the third degree

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A07036 Summary:

BILL NOA07036 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05729

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SPONSORGonzalez-Rojas

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COSPNSRGallagher, Reyes, Shimsky, Simone, Cunningham, Colton, Kassay, Schiavoni, Burdick, Burroughs, Raga,
 Powers, Stern, Kelles, Woerner

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§20 & 23, Exec L

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Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources.

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BILL NOA07036 

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03/18/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7036

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 18, 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, in relation to adding hazardous air
 quality to the state definition of a disaster and including air quali-
 ty emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management
 plans

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 20 of the executive
 2 law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 a. "disaster" means occurrence or imminent, impending or urgent threat
 5 of wide spread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property
 6 resulting from any natural or [man-made] human-made causes, including,
 7 but not limited to, fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, high
 8 water, landslide, mudslide, wind, storm, wave action, volcanic activity,
 9 epidemic, disease outbreak, air contamination, hazardous air quality,
 10 terrorism, cyber event, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, radio-
 11 logical accident, nuclear, chemical, biological, or bacteriological
 12 release, water contamination, bridge failure or bridge collapse.
 13 § 2. Section 23 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 14 vision 8 to read as follows:
 15 8. Such plans shall additionally include, but not be limited to, the
 16 following regarding air quality emergencies:
 17 a. an action plan for the municipality in the case of an air quality
 18 emergency; and
 19 b. an annual inventory of the municipality's air quality emergency
 20 resources.
 21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10455-01-5

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