Amends the list of officials eligible to succeed the governor in New York if the governor is incapacitated by an attack, natural disaster, or.
This bill amends the New York state defense emergency act to update the list of officials eligible to succeed the governor if the governor is incapacitated by an attack, natural disaster, or peacetime disaster. The officials eligible to succeed the governor, in order of precedence, are the attorney general, the comptroller, the commissioner of transportation, the commissioner of health, the commissioner of economic development, the commissioner of labor, the chairperson of the public service commission, and the secretary of state. This act takes effect immediately.
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