August 11, 2010, Introduced by Reps. Espinoza and Polidori and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security.
A bill to create the personal preparedness standards act; to
require state and local continuity plans to include certain
provisions; and to provide for certain powers and duties of state
and local officers and agencies.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
"personal preparedness standards act".
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Continuity coordinator" means the individual within a
first responder organization who is responsible for human capital
issues during a continuity event.
(b) "Continuity event" means a natural disaster, man-made
disaster, or terrorist attack that requires the services of a first
responder organization.
(c) "Continuity plan" means the plan maintained by each first
responder organization that determines how that organization
maintains essential public services during a continuity event.
(d) "First responder organization" means a state or local law
enforcement agency, fire department, emergency medical service,
public utility, or other public or quasi-public entity whose
services protect the public health and welfare.
Sec. 3. A continuity plan shall include personal preparedness
measures that ensure that employees of a first responder
organization and their families are prepared for the employees to
be deployed during a continuity event. The personal preparedness
measures shall include all of the following:
(a) Employees shall provide to the continuity coordinator a
listing of contact numbers for their immediate family and other
individuals significant to the employees for use in emergency
situations and as a means of updating family members during a
continuity event or during a long-term deployment. The contact
numbers shall be updated as necessary, but no less than annually
during the first week of January of each year.
(b) The continuity coordinator shall identify a team of human
capital liaisons for the purposes of providing updates to employee
family members during a continuity event. This list of contacts
shall be refined as needed during a continuity event. As a general
policy, updates shall be provided to those family members during a
continuity event not less than twice daily at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
(c) The continuity coordinator shall facilitate the execution
of a family preparedness and communications plan for all continuity
personnel. These plans shall, at a minimum, include the following
components:
(i) Education on the hazards and emergencies that may affect
continuity personnel specific to the area in which they reside.
(ii) Plans to reduce hazards in and around the employee's home,
such as where and how to turn off electricity, water, and gas.
(iii) The assembly of disaster supply kits for home, work, and
automobile.
(iv) Identification of community warning systems and evacuation
routes.
(v) Identification and documentation of the information
required from work, community, and school plans critical to them
and their families during a continuity event.
(vi) Identification and documentation of key local resources
specific to the common locations that continuity personnel and
their families frequent.
(vii) Contingency plans for child and elder care
responsibilities.
(viii) Contingency plans to care and shelter family pets.
(ix) Plans for family members to shelter in place or the
identification of outdoor rallying locations and evacuation routes,
or both.
(x) Contingency communication plans for family members.
(xi) Portable family emergency cards.
(xii) A mechanism for employees to maintain critical
information, at their residences or with trusted agents, that will
aid them and their families during a continuity event and in their
personal recoveries after a continuity event. This critical
information, at a minimum, should document important medical
information, automobile information, insurance information, real
and personal property information, critical financial data, legal
identification numbers, and other legal documentation critical to
recovery from a continuity event.
(d) Other activities that support continuity personnel with a
greater level of confidence in their ability to meet individual
responsibilities and obligations.