File #: Int 1174-2025    Version: * Name: Creation and publicization of an online portal for vulnerable and homebound individuals to voluntarily facilitate their inclusion in outreach and recovery efforts during emergencies.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
On agenda: 1/23/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation and publicization of an online portal for vulnerable and homebound individuals to voluntarily facilitate their inclusion in outreach and recovery efforts during emergencies
Sponsors: Linda Lee, Farah N. Louis, Lincoln Restler, Susan Zhuang, Justin L. Brannan
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Commissioner of Emergency Management to create and publicize a portal on its website where individuals can voluntarily self-identify as vulnerable or homebound and request inclusion in outreach and recovery plans for emergencies. The portal would allow individuals to provide relevant information to facilitate their inclusion in existing systems used by the Emergency Management Department to assist vulnerable and homebound individuals before, during, and after emergency conditions.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1174, 2. Int. No. 1174, 3. January 23, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1174

 

By Council Members Lee, Louis, Restler, Zhuang and Brannan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation and publicization of an online portal for vulnerable and homebound individuals to voluntarily facilitate their inclusion in outreach and recovery efforts during emergencies

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision b of section 30-111 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 60 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:

b. the development of a mechanism for utilizing lists of homebound and vulnerable individuals, to the extent consistent with applicable confidentiality requirements, which shall include: (1) the use of existing lists of such individuals maintained by community based organizations, service providers and relevant agencies, including but not limited to the department for the aging, the department of health and mental hygiene, the department of social services/human resources administration, and the New York city housing authority; (2) the office's Advance Warning System or successor system; [and] (3) a process whereby vulnerable and homebound individuals receive information about how to request that they be included in such existing lists or system; and (4) the creation and publicization of a portal on the office’s website to allow individuals to voluntarily self-identify as vulnerable or homebound and request inclusion in the plans described in this section;

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

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