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This bill requires hazardous materials emergency response training for EMS personnel employed by fire departments in cities with over one million residents.
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Increases EMS Preparedness for Hazmat Incidents. By specifically requiring hazardous materials emergency response training for EMS personnel in large city fire departments, the bill aims to ensure that first responders are better equipped to handle complex emergencies involving dangerous substances, potentially reducing response times and improving public safety.
Mandates State Coordination and Oversight. The legislation requires the Department of Health and State Fire Administrator to collaborate on developing and providing the training, promoting standardized practices and interagency cooperation, which could lead to more effective and unified emergency responses.
Ensures Dedicated Funding. The bill specifies that funding for this training will come from existing state resources (per section 97-q of the state finance law), addressing a common barrier to implementation and helping ensure that training mandates are actually fulfilled rather than remaining unfunded directives.
Targets High-Risk Urban Areas. Focusing on cities with over one million residents addresses the heightened risk of hazardous materials incidents in densely populated urban environments, where the consequences of unpreparedness could be more severe for both responders and the general public.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1987
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the executive law, in relation to the provision of hazardous materials emergency response training to emergency medical services personnel employed by a fire department operating within a city with a population of more than one million
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 3005-c to read as follows:
§ 3005-c. Hazardous materials emergency response training. 1. Beginning January first, two thousand nineteen, the department, in cooperation with the state fire administrator, shall make available hazardous materials emergency response training, pursuant to the program established in section one hundred fifty-six-a of the executive law, for all emergency medical services personnel employed by a fire department operating within a city of one million or more.
2. The commissioner shall inform all emergency medical service personnel covered by subdivision one of this section, of the implementation and availability of the hazardous materials emergency response training program.
3. Funding for the training required by this section shall be provided by the department pursuant to section ninety-seven-q of the state finance law.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 156-a of the executive law, as amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 101 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
1. (a) The state fire administrator shall, in consultation with the advisory council for fire prevention and control, establish a specialized hazardous materials emergency response training program for individuals responsible for providing emergency response recovery following
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03404-01-7
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incidents involving hazardous materials as such term is defined in regulations promulgated by the commissioner of transportation pursuant to section fourteen-f of the transportation law. The state fire administrator shall inform all fire companies, municipal corporations and districts, including agencies and departments thereof and all firefighters, both paid and volunteer, and related officers and employees and police officers of the implementation and availability of the hazardous materials emergency response training program and shall, subject to the availability of an appropriation, conduct such training with sufficient frequency to assure adequate response to incidents involving hazardous materials and protection of responders in all geographic areas of the state.
(b) The state fire administrator shall cooperate with the commissioner of health to establish the specialized hazardous materials emergency response training program for emergency medical services personnel provided for in section three thousand five-c of the public health law.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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