STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7926

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT in relation to directing the  office  of  information  technology
          services to add a gun violence alert to the New York alert system

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

     1    Section 1. The office of information technology services shall  estab-
     2  lish  a  gun violence alert to be added to the emergency alert notifica-
     3  tion system, also known as alert.ny.gov or NY-Alert. Such  gun  violence
     4  alert  shall  be  added to the list of notifications available via phone
     5  call, email, text message, fax or  other  method  to  provide  real-time
     6  warnings  and  emergency information pertaining to gun violence to citi-
     7  zens of New York State.   Such gun violence alerts  shall  notify  those
     8  NY-Alert  subscribers  within a one-mile radius of such gun violence, as
     9  determined by the law enforcement agency or division reporting such  gun
    10  violence to the emergency alert notification system,  for the protection
    11  and safety of persons located within such area.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05371-01-3