Section 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 three  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  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.
    2.  The  director  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."