assembly Bill A7646A

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to ensuring paid employees of a county airport or county aviation department which perform fire response or fire rescue duties are eligible for equal benefits as other paid firefighters

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  • Delivered to Governor
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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Dec 15, 2020 approval memo.34
signed chap.325
Dec 03, 2020 delivered to governor
Jul 22, 2020 returned to assembly
passed senate
3rd reading cal.888
substituted for s6144a
referred to rules
delivered to senate
passed assembly
Jul 20, 2020 ordered to third reading rules cal.171
rules report cal.171
reported
Jul 17, 2020 reported referred to rules
Jul 16, 2020 reported referred to ways and means
Jul 11, 2020 print number 7646a
Jul 11, 2020 amend (t) and recommit to local governments
Jan 08, 2020 referred to local governments
May 14, 2019 referred to local governments

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Jul 22, 2020 - floor Vote

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Floor Vote: Jul 22, 2020

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Bill Amendments

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A7646 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6144
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §207-a, Gen Muni L

A7646 - Summary

Relates to ensuring paid employees of a county airport or county aviation department which perform fire response or fire rescue duties are eligible for equal benefits as other paid firefighters.

A7646 - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7646
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to clarifying the
   definition of a fire company to  include  a  fire  response  and  fire
   rescue  unit  of a county airport or a county aviation department; and
   to ensure employees of such fire response and fire  rescue  units  are
   eligible for equal benefits as other paid firefighters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 100 of the  general
 municipal  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  476  of  the laws of 2018, is
 amended, and a new paragraph d is added to read as follows:
   c. A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer  firefighters
 and  which  was  incorporated  under,  or  established  pursuant  to the
 provisions of, any general or special law, which is not included  within
 paragraphs a and b above, if such corporation is by law under the gener-
 al  control  of,  or  recognized as a fire corporation by, the governing
 board of a city, town, village, fire district or a district  corporation
 other than a fire district[.], OR
   D.  A  COUNTY  AIRPORT  OR COUNTY AVIATION DEPARTMENT FIRE RESPONSE OR
 FIRE RESCUE UNIT.
   § 2. Section 207-a of the general municipal law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8. EMPLOYEES OF A COUNTY AIRPORT OR COUNTY AVIATION  DEPARTMENT  WHICH
 PERFORM  FIRE  RESPONSE  OR  FIRE  RESCUE  DUTIES  SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR
 PAYMENTS AND/OR BENEFITS PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10185-01-9

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A7646A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6144
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §207-a, Gen Muni L

A7646A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to ensuring paid employees of a county airport or county aviation department which perform fire response or fire rescue duties are eligible for equal benefits as other paid firefighters.

A7646A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7646--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, JOHNS, KOLB -- read once and referred to
   the  Committee on Local Governments -- recommitted to the Committee on
   Local Governments in accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to ensuring  paid
   employees  of  a  county  airport  or county aviation department which
   perform fire response or fire rescue duties  are  eligible  for  equal
   benefits as other paid firefighters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207-a  of  the  general  municipal
 law,  as  amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read
 as follows:
   1. Any paid firefighter which term as used in this section shall  mean
 any  paid officer or member of an organized fire company or fire depart-
 ment of a city of less than one million population, or town, village  or
 fire  district,  OR  ANY  PAID  EMPLOYEE  OF  A COUNTY AIRPORT OR COUNTY
 AVIATION DEPARTMENT WHICH PERFORMS FIRE RESPONSE OR FIRE RESCUE  DUTIES,
 who  is  injured in the performance of his or her duties or who is taken
 sick as a result of the performance of his or her duties so as to neces-
 sitate medical or other lawful remedial treatment, shall be paid by  the
 municipality  or  fire  district by which he or she is employed the full
 amount of his or her regular salary or wages until his or her disability
 arising therefrom has ceased, and, in  addition,  such  municipality  or
 fire  district  shall  be  liable for all medical treatment and hospital
 care furnished during such disability.  Provided, however, and  notwith-
 standing  the foregoing provisions of this section, the municipal health
 authorities or any physician appointed for the purpose  by  the  munici-
 pality  or fire district, may attend any such injured or sick firefight-
 er, from time to time, for the purpose of providing medical, surgical or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.