Senate Bill S4486

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires certain changes to service award programs to be subject to a mandatory referendum

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S4486 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง219-d, 219-k & 219-l, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S4680

2009-S4486 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain changes to service award programs to be subject to a mandatory referendum; lowers the entitlement age to fifty-five.

2009-S4486 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S4486 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4486

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 23, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. FLANAGAN, O. JOHNSON, LARKIN, MORAHAN -- read twice
  and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
  on Local Government

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to service  award
  programs

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 8  of  section  219-d  of  the
general municipal law, as amended by chapter 514 of the laws of 1998, is
amended to read as follows:
  (b)  The  entitlement  age,  the  number of years of ambulance service
required to obtain a nonforfeitable right to a service  award,  and  the
activities  for which points shall be granted toward a year of ambulance
service may be changed by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote  of
at  least  sixty  percent  of the governing board of the sponsor without
referendum; PROVIDED, THAT, CONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVI-
SION  THREE  OF  SECTION  TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN-M OF THIS ARTICLE, IF THE
EFFECT OF THE AMENDMENT IS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF POINTS GRANTED  FOR
THE  PERFORMANCE  OF  THE  ACTIVITY,  DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF AN ACTIVITY
REQUIRED TO EARN THE POINTS GRANTED FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ACTIVITY,
OR BOTH, SUCH AMENDMENT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A MANDATORY REFERENDUM.  ANY
AMENDMENT  TO  A  SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM SHALL ONLY TAKE EFFECT AS OF THE
FIRST OF JANUARY NEXT SUCCEEDING COMPLETION OF THE PROCEEDINGS  REQUIRED
FOR ADOPTION OF THE AMENDMENT AND SHALL ONLY APPLY PROSPECTIVELY.
  S  2.  Subdivision 3 of section 219-k of the general municipal law, as
added by chapter 558 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  3. "Entitlement age" means age [sixty-five] FIFTY-FIVE and, except  in
the  case  of  disability or death, shall be the earliest age at which a
participant who has a nonforfeitable right to a service award  is  enti-
tled to apply for and begin receiving a service award.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02780-01-9

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