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NY A07036
Bill
Status
3/18/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas
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AI Summary
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Adds "hazardous air quality" to the state's legal definition of "disaster" under the executive law, alongside existing categories like fire, flood, earthquake, and epidemic
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Requires local comprehensive emergency management plans to include an action plan for responding to air quality emergencies
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Mandates municipalities to maintain an annual inventory of their air quality emergency resources
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Changes terminology in the disaster definition from "man-made" to "human-made" causes
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
referred to governmental operations
1/7/2026