Bill > A4595

Introduced Session

This bill requires each Executive Branch department, agency, and instrumentality to establish an inventory of regulations, policies, guidelines, waivers, plans, programs, directives, and any other actions developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent executive orders declaring a state of emergency and public health emergency and assess the effectiveness of such measures, their applicability to potential future emergency scenarios, and promulgate rules and regulations, or take any other actions as shall be necessary, to implement such measures in a manner which effectuates a rapid and effective response to potential future emergency scenarios. This bill requires that one year following the effective date of this act, and annually thereafter, each Executive Branch department, agency, and instrumentality provide a report to the Governor, and submit that report to the Legislature, which identifies such measures, provides an assessment of the effectiveness of such measures, details plans for the implementation of such measures in response to potential future emergency scenarios, and makes such recommendations for legislation or executive actions as may be deemed appropriate. Each report shall be made available to the public by posting the report on the web sites of the department, office, or agency.

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David Bailey (D)*,  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)*, 

Reported and Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee (on 09/23/2024)

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