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                                  5388

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 16, 2013
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Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 the inclusion  of  the
  office for the aging in the disaster preparedness commission

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 21 of the executive law, as  sepa-
rately amended by section 2 of part G and section 7 of part O of chapter
55 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  There  is  hereby  created  in the executive department a disaster
preparedness commission consisting of the commissioners  of  transporta-
tion, health, division of criminal justice services, education, economic
development,  agriculture  and  markets,  housing and community renewal,
general services,  labor,  environmental  conservation,  mental  health,
parks,  recreation  and historic preservation, corrections and community
supervision, children and family services, homeland security  and  emer-
gency  services,  and people with developmental disabilities, the presi-
dent of the New York state energy research  and  development  authority,
the  superintendents  of state police and financial services, the secre-
tary of state, the state fire administrator, the  chair  of  the  public
service  commission,  the  adjutant  general,  the office of information
technology services, and the office of victim services,  the  chairs  of
the thruway authority, THE OFFICE FOR THE AGING, the metropolitan trans-
portation  authority, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, the
chief professional officer of the  state  coordinating  chapter  of  the
American  Red Cross and three additional members, to be appointed by the
governor, two of whom shall be chief executives. Each member agency  may
designate an executive level officer of that agency, with responsibility
for  disaster preparedness matters, who may represent that agency on the
commission. The commissioner of the division of  homeland  security  and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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emergency  services  shall  serve  as  chair  of the commission, and the
governor shall designate the vice chair of the commission.  The  members
of  the  commission, except those who serve ex officio, shall be allowed
their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
duties  under  this article but shall receive no additional compensation
for services rendered pursuant to this article.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.