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                                   7603
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 3, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to providing awards to spouses of emergency  medical  techni-
   cians  and advanced emergency medical technicians who are killed while
   engaged in the discharge of duty

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3-401 of the administrative code of the city of New
 York,  as amended by local law number 27 of the city of New York for the
 year 1998 and the closing paragraph as amended by  chapter  582  of  the
 laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   §  3-401  Awards  to  spouses  of killed firefighters, police officers
 [and],  transit  police  officers,  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIANS  AND
 ADVANCED  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIANS.  The  mayor is authorized and
 empowered to make an award to the spouse or domestic partner of a member
 of the uniformed  force  of  the  police  department,  fire  department,
 INCLUDING  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL
 TECHNICIANS EMPLOYED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, or uniformed transit police
 force, maintained by the New York city transit authority,  killed  while
 engaged  in  the  discharge  of  duty. Such award shall equal the annual
 salary of such member at the time of death, but in no case less than the
 full salary payable to a first grade police officer,  firefighter  [or],
 transit  police  officer, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR ADVANCED EMER-
 GENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN at the date of death of such employee.
   In case there shall be no spouse or domestic  partner  surviving  such
 member, the award shall be made to the minor child or children surviving
 such  member.  In  case there shall be no spouse or domestic partner nor
 child nor children so surviving the award may be made to  the  dependent
 mother,  father, or other dependents of such member. Such award shall be
 made in one payment as soon after the death of such  member  as  may  be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 possible  and shall be in addition to any pension, award or other allow-
 ances authorized by law.
   Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and solely
 for  the  purposes  of  this section, a member otherwise covered by this
 section shall be deemed  to  have  been  killed  while  engaged  in  the
 discharge  of  duty  upon which his or her membership is based, provided
 that such member was in active service upon which his or her  membership
 is  based at the time that such member was ordered to active duty pursu-
 ant to Title 10 of the United States Code, with the armed forces of  the
 United  States or to service in the uniformed services pursuant to Chap-
 ter 43 of Title 38 of the United States Code, and such member died while
 on such active duty or service in the uniformed  services  on  or  after
 June fourteenth, two thousand five while serving on such active military
 duty or in the uniformed services.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.