Scope: State (New York)
Branch: Executive
Severity: Amber
Date occurred: February 24, 2026
Executive Order 56.10, signed February 24, 2026, extends the declared state disaster emergency in New York County arising from healthcare staffing shortages. The order continues the emergency declaration and the associated executive authority previously invoked under the state's disaster emergency provisions.
Constitutional basis: Serial extension of Executive Law Section 29-a authority to suspend statutes stretches a delegated short-term emergency power into continuing executive governance.