2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 26 - Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services › 711 - Reports.

§ 711. Reports. 1. On or before January thirty-first of each year, the
  director  shall appear before and deliver a report to representatives of
  each house of the legislature. The temporary president of the senate and
  the speaker of the assembly shall each appoint  four  members  of  their
  respective  houses,  and  the  minority  leader of each house shall each
  appoint one member, to hear the director's report. The appointed members
  may hear the report in a joint meeting of the members of the senate  and
  assembly or in separate meetings attended by the members from one house.
  The   chief   information  security  officer  of  the  state  office  of
  information technology services  shall  participate  in  such  joint  or
  separate  meetings  to  supplement the report delivered by the director.
  The report shall provide information including, but not limited to:  the
  state's  current  threat  level, imminent threats to New York state, the
  state's  current  threat  posture  and   collaborative   efforts   among
  localities,  regions  and  with  other  states to prepare for and defend
  against acts of terrorism. The chief information security officer of the
  state office of information technology  services  shall  supplement  the
  report  delivered  by the director with information on the state's cyber
  security infrastructure and cyber security resiliency efforts.
2. The commissioner shall appear and give testimony before the  annual
  legislative  hearing  on  public protection held jointly by the assembly
  committee on ways and means and the senate finance committee as provided
  for in section three of article VII of the New York  state  constitution
  and section thirty-one of the legislative law.
3. The director shall report to the temporary president of the senate,
  speaker  of  the  assembly and/or their designees within five days of an
  elevation of the state homeland security advisory system threat level as
  to the circumstances of the elevation.
4. Before the receipt of any report issued pursuant to  this  section,
  each recipient of such report shall develop confidentiality protocols in
  consultation with the director which shall be binding upon the recipient
  who  issues  the  protocols  and  anyone to whom the recipient shows the
  report, for the maintenance and use of such report so as to  ensure  the
  confidentiality   of   all   sensitive  information  contained  therein,
  provided, however, that such protocols  shall  not  be  binding  upon  a
  person  who  is  provided  access  to  such  report  or  any information
  contained therein pursuant to section eighty-nine of the public officers
  law after a final determination  that  access  to  such  report  or  any
  information   contained   therein   could  not  be  denied  pursuant  to
  subdivision two of section eighty-seven of the public officers law.  The
  director  shall  also develop protocols for his or her office related to
  the  maintenance  and  use  of  the  report  so   as   to   ensure   the
  confidentiality of all sensitive information contained in the report. On
  each copy of written reports, the director shall prominently display the
  following  statement:  "This  report  may  contain  information  that if
  disclosed  could  endanger  the  life  or  safety  of  the  public,  and
  therefore,  pursuant  to  section  seven hundred eleven of the executive
  law, this report is to be maintained and used  in  a  manner  consistent
  with  protocols  established  to  preserve  the  confidentiality  of the
  information contained herein in a manner consistent with law."