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Assembly Bill A7427

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires the state to provide reimbursement of certain costs and benefits incurred as a result of an injury occurring during a mutual aid call

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2019-A7427 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6024
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, Work Comp L; amd §30, Vol Ffs Ben L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A283, S1009
2023-2024: A850
2025-2026: A5039

2019-A7427 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state to provide reimbursement of certain costs and benefits incurred as a result of an injury occurring during a mutual aid call.

2019-A7427 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7427
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 3, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the workers' compensation law and the volunteer fire-
   fighters' benefit law, in relation to requiring the state  to  provide
   reimbursement of certain costs and benefits incurred as a result of an
   injury occurring during a mutual aid call

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 10 of  the  workers'  compensation
 law is renumbered subdivision 5 and a new subdivision 4 is added to read
 as follows:
   4.  IF  A  PAID FIREFIGHTER OR PAID FIRE TRUCK DRIVER IN THE COURSE OF
 RESPONDING TO A MUTUAL AID CALL SUFFERS AN INJURY  CAUSALLY  RELATED  TO
 SUCH  MUTUAL  AID CALL AND INCURS COSTS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT, LOST TIME
 FROM HIS OR HER POSITION, REDUCED EARNINGS OR  ANY  OTHER  COST  PAYABLE
 UNDER THIS CHAPTER, THE STATE SHALL REIMBURSE THE MUNICIPALITY EMPLOYING
 THE  FIREFIGHTER  OR FIRE TRUCK DRIVER FOR ALL SUCH COSTS.  IN ADDITION,
 SHOULD A MUNICIPALITY INCUR OVERTIME COSTS DUE TO  A  MUTUAL  AID  CALL,
 WHETHER  OR  NOT AN INJURY OCCURS, THE STATE SHALL REIMBURSE THE MUNICI-
 PALITY FOR SUCH OVERTIME COSTS.   REIMBURSEMENT UNDER  THIS  SUBDIVISION
 SHALL  NOT EXCEED THE ACTUAL COST INCURRED. EACH MUNICIPALITY THAT SEEKS
 REIMBURSEMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL SUBMIT ITS  CLAIMS  FOR
 REIMBURSEMENT  ON  FORMS  APPROVED  BY  AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULES AND
 REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONERS.
   § 2. Section 30 of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law is  amended
 by adding a new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
   13. IF A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER IN THE COURSE OF RESPONDING TO A MUTUAL
 AID  CALL SUFFERS AN INJURY CAUSALLY RELATED TO SUCH MUTUAL AID CALL AND
 INCURS COSTS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT, LOST TIME FROM HIS OR HER  POSITION,
 LOSS OF EARNINGS OR ANY OTHER COST PAYABLE UNDER THIS CHAPTER, THE STATE
 SHALL  REIMBURSE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THE FIREFIGHTER VOLUNTEERS WITH FOR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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