S 8767 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Requires operational safety plans to require employees to check in before taking action at an incident location; directs the office to make efforts to provide employees with operational safety plans

Summary
Provides that an operational safety plan developed by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation shall require that any employee check in with the incident commander or safety officer for incident specific procedures prior to taking any action at the incident location; provides that when deployment occurs in coordination with one or more other entities, and the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation is not the lead response agency, the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that employees are provided with the incident specific operational safety plan developed by the lead agency and/or incident commander.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Jan 2026
Senate Passage
Jan 2026
Assembly Passage
Jan 2026
Signed into Law
Feb 2026
Introduced Jan 8, 2026 Signed Feb 13, 2026
Floor votes · Senate Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly Jan 21, 2026

How they voted

561
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 61
Jan 20, 2026
D Democratic39
36 Yea 3
92% Yea
R Republican22
20 Yea 1 Nay 1
90% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
11
Key actions
3
Committee
2
Feb 13, 2026
Signed into law
SIGNED CHAP.48
upper
Jan 21, 2026
Lower · Passed
PASSED ASSEMBLY
lower
Jan 20, 2026
Committee
REFERRED TO TOURISM, PARKS, ARTS AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT
lower
Jan 20, 2026
Upper · Passed
PASSED SENATE
upper
Jan 8, 2026
Committee
REFERRED TO RULES
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Jose Serrano
Jose Serrano
DDemocratic/Working Families
NY
29