Legislation Details

File #: Int 1512-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring the department for the aging to establish a program that allows older adults to register their emergency contact information.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Aging
On agenda: 12/18/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department for the aging to establish a program that allows older adults to register their emergency contact information
Sponsors: Robert F. Holden, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require the taxi and limousine commission, in collaboration with the police department and department of transportation, to develop and maintain a checklist of applicable rules and regulations that relate to unlicensed commuter vans. This checklist would be utilized in the training of officers authorized to enforce the commission’s rules, as well as during enforcement actions against unlicensed commuter vans. In addition, the taxi and limousine commission would be required to conduct no fewer than six operations each quarter to inspect routes used by unlicensed commuter vans in order to identify potential violations of the commission’s rules and regulations.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1512, 2. Int. No. 1512, 3. Memorandum in Support, 4. Dedember 18, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-18-25
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2025*Robert F. Holden City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2025*Robert F. Holden City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2025*Robert F. Holden City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1512

 

By Council Members Holden and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department for the aging to establish a program that allows older adults to register their emergency contact information

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-218 to read as follows:

§ 21-218 Voluntary emergency contact registration. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the term “older adult” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision a of section 21-210.

b. No later than one year after the effective date of the local law that added this section, the commissioner shall establish a program that allows older adults to register certain information with the department. The information collected and retained shall include:

1. The name, date of birth, address, and telephone number of the registrant;

2. The name, address, and telephone number of the registrant’s emergency contact; and

3. Any other information that the registrant wishes to provide, including relevant medical information.

c. The commissioner may disclose the information collected and retained pursuant to subdivision b of this section to other agencies; provided, however, that registrants may restrict the commissioner from sharing their information with particular agencies or with all agencies.

d. The department shall conduct outreach to promote awareness of the program. Such outreach shall include, but not be limited to, an annual mailing to older adults who may benefit from enrollment in such program or who may care for or serve such older adults.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately

 

 

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11/26/2025 2:40 PM