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Assembly Bill A79

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years

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2025-A79 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10186
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §15-148, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10495

2025-A79 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years.

2025-A79 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    79
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to requiring the city of New York to replace body armor worn
   by emergency services personnel every five years

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision a of section 15-148 of the administrative code
 of the city of New York, as added by local law number 60 of the city  of
 New York for the year 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  The  commissioner shall provide body armor to all employees of the
 department within the bureau of emergency medical services  who  provide
 emergency  medical  services.  Such body armor shall be of the type that
 the commissioner determines would be most suitable for the protection of
 such employees, and shall meet ballistic and stab  resistance  standards
 of  the  national  institute of justice or any successor standards. SUCH
 BODY ARMOR SHALL BE REPLACED EVERY FIVE YEARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00003-01-5

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