S 8871: Requires the state fire administrator to make available a specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program to provide training to individuals responsible for providing emergency response and recovery following incidents involving electric vehicles; defines emergency medical services agency.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8871  IN SENATE January 12, 2026 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 156-i 2 to read as follows: 3 § 156-i. Establishment of a specialized electric vehicle emergency 4 response training program. 1. The state fire administrator shall make 5 available a specialized electric vehicle emergency response training 6 program for individuals responsible for providing emergency response and 7 recovery following incidents involving electric vehicles. The state fire 8 administrator shall inform all fire companies, municipal corporations 9 and districts, including agencies and departments thereof and all fire- 10 fighters, both paid and volunteer, and related officers and employees, 11 police officers, emergency medical services agencies, and tow operators 12 of the implementation and availability of the specialized electric vehi- 13 cle emergency response training program and shall, subject to the avail- 14 ability of an appropriation, conduct such training with sufficient 15 frequency to ensure adequate response to incidents involving electric 16 vehicles and protection of responders in all geographic areas of the 17 state. 18 2. The state fire administrator shall prescribe the curriculum of the 19 specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program, which 20 shall include, but shall not be limited to, hands-on training. As 21 recommended by the national transportation safety board, the curriculum 22 shall, to the maximum extent possible, be based on international organ- 23 ization for standardization (ISO) standard 17840, where consistent first 24 with the standards of the society of automotive engineers and second 25 with the standards of the national fire protection association. 26 3. The state fire administrator is hereby directed to issue a report 27 to the governor, speaker of the assembly, temporary president of the 28 senate, chair of the assembly transportation committee and the chair of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01390-01-5 
 S. 8871 2 1 the senate transportation committee by February fifteenth of each year 2 on the operations of the program set forth in this section. 3 4. The state fire administrator shall promulgate such rules and regu- 4 lations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. 5 5. For the purposes of this section, the term "emergency medical 6 services agency" shall mean an agency that provides initial emergency 7 medical services including, but not limited to, the treatment of trauma, 8 burns, respiratory, circulatory and obstetrical emergencies, as defined 9 in section three thousand one of the public health law. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.