Relates to increasing membership on the state fire prevention and building code council, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    596
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to increasing  membership
   on the state fire prevention and building code council; and to amend a
   chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the executive law relating to the
   appointment   for   agricultural  representation  on  the  state  fire
   prevention and building code council, as proposed in legislative bills
   numbers S. 1218-B and A. 1080-B,  in  relation  to  the  effectiveness
   thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  374  of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended  by  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2024 amending the executive law
 relating to the appointment for agricultural representation on the state
 fire prevention and building code council, as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S. 1218-B and A. 1080-B, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  There is hereby created and established in the department of state
 a council, to be known as the state fire prevention  and  building  code
 council.  Such  council  shall  consist  of  the  secretary of state, as
 [chairman] CHAIRPERSON,  the  state  fire  administrator  and  [sixteen]
 SEVENTEEN other members to be appointed as follows:
   a.  [Two]  THREE  members, to be appointed by the governor, from among
 the commissioners of the departments of economic  development,  environ-
 mental  conservation,  corrections and community supervision, education,
 health,  labor,  AGRICULTURE  AND  MARKETS,  mental  health  and  social
 services,  office of general services, division of housing and community
 renewal, the president of the New York state energy research and  devel-
 opment authority, and the superintendent of financial services.
   b.  Six members, to be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be
 an elected official of a city with a population over one million, one of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 whom shall be an elected official of another city with a population over
 one hundred thousand, one of whom shall be an elected  official  of  any
 other city, one of whom shall be an elected county official, one of whom
 shall  be  an elected town official, and one of whom shall be an elected
 village official.
   c. Eight members, to be appointed by the governor with the advice  and
 consent of the senate, one of whom shall be a fire service official, one
 of  whom shall be a registered architect, one of whom shall be a profes-
 sional engineer, one of whom shall be a code enforcement  official,  one
 of  whom  shall  represent  builders,  one of whom shall represent trade
 unions, one of whom shall represent agricultural producers, and  one  of
 whom  shall  be  a  person  with  a disability as defined in section two
 hundred ninety-two of this chapter who would directly benefit  from  the
 provisions  of article thirteen of the state uniform fire prevention and
 building code. The registered architect and professional engineer  shall
 be  duly  licensed to practice their respective professions in the state
 of New York. After  the  certification  of  code  enforcement  personnel
 pursuant to this chapter shall have begun said code enforcement official
 shall be so certified.
   §  2. Subdivision 3 of section 374 of the executive law, as amended by
 chapter 374 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   3. The council shall meet at  least  quarterly  at  the  call  of  the
 [chairman]  CHAIRPERSON. Additional meetings may be called upon at least
 five days' notice by the [chairman] CHAIRPERSON or by petition  of  five
 members of the council.
   §  3. The opening paragraph of paragraph a of subdivision 9 of section
 374 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of  1989,
 is amended to read as follows:
   The  [chairman]  CHAIRPERSON  of the council shall appoint an advisory
 board on assistive listening systems in places of  public  assembly  for
 the  purposes  of  providing  the  full council with recommendations for
 standards for such systems. Such advisory board  shall  consist  of  the
 state fire administrator, who shall serve as [chairman] CHAIRPERSON, and
 six other members to be appointed as follows:
   § 4. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the executive
 law  relating  to the appointment for agricultural representation on the
 state fire prevention and building code council, as proposed in legisla-
 tive bills numbers S. 1218-B and  A.  1080-B,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   § 2. This act shall take effect [immediately] JULY 1, 2025.
   §  5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
 same  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the executive law
 relating to the appointment for agricultural representation on the state
 fire prevention and building code council, as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S. 1218-B and A. 1080-B, takes effect.