NY State Senate Bill 2017-S5706

Senate Bill S5706

Signed By Governor

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to awards to spouses of certain employees killed in the line of duty

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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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Oct 23, 2017	signed chap.387
Oct 11, 2017	delivered to governor
Jun 20, 2017	returned to senate passed assembly home rule request ordered to third reading rules cal.607 substituted for a7603 referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate home rule request ordered to third reading cal.2040
Jun 06, 2017	reported and committed to rules
Apr 26, 2017	referred to cities

Votes

- Jun 20, 2017 - Floor Vote
  S5706
  
  63
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 20, 2017
      
      aye (63)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Alcantara
      
      Amedore
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Croci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
  Jun 20, 2017 - Rules Committee Vote
  S5706
  
  25
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 20, 2017
      
      aye (25)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hannon
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Parker
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Squadron
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
  Jun 6, 2017 - Committee Vote
  S5706
  
  6
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Committee Vote: Jun 6, 2017
      
      aye (6)
      
      Akshar
      
      Avella
      
      Felder
      
      Funke
      
      Jacobs
      
      Serrano
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Persaud

co-Sponsors

2017-S5706 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7603
Law Section:: New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:: Amd §3-401, NYC Ad Cd

2017-S5706 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes EMTs within provisions for awards to spouses of certain employees killed in the line of duty.

2017-S5706 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S5706

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to providing awards to spouses of emergency medical
technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians who are killed
while engaged in the discharge of duty

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

The purpose of this bill is to provide awards to spouses of killed
emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical
technicians, who died while engaged in the discharge of their duties.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section one of the bill amends section 3-401 of the administrative
code of the city of New York to provide an award to surviving spouses
of emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical
technicians killed while discharging their duties.

Section two of the bill provides that this act shall take effect
immediately.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Section 3-401 of the NYC Administrative Code, in its present form,
only provides awards to spouses of killed firefighters, police
officers and transit police officers. Like firefighters and police,
emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and advanced emergency medical
technicians (Paramedics) also work as emergency first responders, and
are required to render aid and treatment to patients under extremely
dangerous and stressful conditions. Indeed, as made clear by the
recent tragic death of Yadira Arroyo, an EMT and mother of five who
was killed while performing her duties in the Bronx, the hazards of
working as an EMT are so analogous to the characteristics of the work
of uniformed police and fire personnel that there is every reason the
spouses of EMTs and Paramedics should be given equivalent death
benefits in the event of an untimely death while engaged in the
performance of their duties.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New bill.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

To be determined.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

2017-S5706 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5706
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 26, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 
 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.

                                                            LBD11176-01-7

 S. 5706                             2
 
 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.

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Martin J. Golden