What's happening
This bill allows certain public buildings with on-campus emergency answering points to route 911 calls internally instead of directly to public service answering points.
Why it matters
Allows certain college and university buildings to route 911 calls to their own on-campus emergency responders first, rather than directly to outside emergency services. This could speed up response times for campus-specific emergencies, as on-campus responders may know the layout and circumstances better than municipal dispatchers.
Provides flexibility for large educational institutions to use their established emergency infrastructure. Many campuses already have trained security or police forces and dedicated dispatch centers, so this change acknowledges and leverages those resources.
Requires clear instructions on emergency call procedures for buildings that cannot upgrade their phone systems. This helps mitigate confusion and ensures that people know how to reach the correct emergency services, whether via an on-campus answering point or the public 911 system.
May impact the way information is relayed to municipal emergency services,. potentially affecting coordination between campus and city responders. This could have implications for both efficiency and accountability during emergencies that require outside assistance.
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Require Direct 911 Dialing
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Substituted by S7171
- Advanced to third reading cal.340
- Reported
- Referred to governmental operations
- Referred to governmental operations
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Direct 911 Calls in Buildings
Signed by Governor · Sponsor John E. Brooks
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8952
IN ASSEMBLY
January 6, 2020
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to direct dialing to public service answering points
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 717-a of the executive law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the executive law relating to direct dialing to public service answering points, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4756 and A. 458, are amended to read as follows:
3. All public buildings which operate on a multi-line telephone system in this state must configure their multi-line telephone system hardware to allow any call to 911 on the system to be directly connected to a public service answering point; provided however, that in the case of public buildings governed by section three hundred fifty-five or six thousand two hundred four of the education law which have on-campus emergency answering points, such public buildings may route such 911 calls to their on-campus answering points.
4. The requirements of subdivision three of this section shall not apply to any public building operating on a multi-line telephone system that would be required to upgrade the hardware of their telephone network to meet said requirement. However, every telephone in any exempt public building operating on a multi-line telephone system shall place an instructional sticker on or immediately adjacent to each telephone informing users of the phone's inability to directly dial 911 and the procedures to follow to connect to a 911 public service answering point, or in the case of public buildings governed by section three hundred fifty-five or six thousand two hundred four of the education law which have on-campus emergency answering points, such on-campus answering points, in case of an emergency.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the executive law
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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relating to direct dialing to public service answering points, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4756 and A. 458, takes effect.
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