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                                   5706
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 26, 2017
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 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.
              

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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.