Assembly Bill A8919

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to amendments to the granting of certain service awards

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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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2017-A8919 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7315
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §219-d, Gen Muni L (as proposed in S. 899 and A. 6873)

2017-A8919 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to amendments to the granting of certain service awards.

2017-A8919 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8919
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 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 a  chapter  of  the  laws  of  2017
 amending  the  general municipal law relating to service award programs,
 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 899 and A. 6873, 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] NINETEEN-E of this [chap-
 ter]  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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the general municipal
 law relating to service award programs as proposed in legislative  bills
 numbers S. 899 and A. 6873, takes effect.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00977-02-8

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