Assembly Bill A2070

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to providing volunteer emergency medical technicians enhanced cancer disability benefits

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A2070 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §205-ccc, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10280
2021-2022: A4748

2023-A2070 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides certified volunteer emergency medical technicians enhanced cancer disability benefits and death benefits for certain cancers.

2023-A2070 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2070
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  providing
   volunteer  emergency  medical  technician  enhanced  cancer disability
   benefits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
 section 205-ccc to read as follows:
   § 205-CCC. VOLUNTEER  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIAN  ENHANCED  CANCER
 DISABILITY  BENEFITS. A LEGALLY ORGANIZED AMBULANCE DISTRICT, DEPARTMENT
 OR COMPANY SHALL PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN FOR EACH ELIGIBLE VOLUNTEER  EMER-
 GENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIAN, AN ENHANCED CANCER DISABILITY BENEFIT INSUR-
 ANCE PROGRAM.
   1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
   A. "ELIGIBLE VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN" MEANS:
   (I) A VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN HAVING FIVE OR MORE YEARS
 OF FAITHFUL AND  ACTUAL  SERVICE  IN  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TREATMENT  WHO
 SUCCESSFULLY  PASSED  A  PHYSICAL EXAMINATION ON ENTRY TO SERVICE, WHICH
 EXAMINATION FAILED TO REVEAL ANY EVIDENCE OF CANCERS AS DEFINED IN PARA-
 GRAPH B OF THIS SUBDIVISION; AND
   (II) HAVING SUBMITTED PROOF OF FIVE  YEARS  OF  SERVICE  BY  PROVIDING
 VERIFICATION  THAT HE OR SHE HAS MET MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CERTIFICATION
 AS AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN UNDER SECTION THREE THOUSAND  TWO  OF
 THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   B. "CANCER" MEANS:
   (I)  A DISEASE CAUSED BY AN UNCONTROLLED DIVISION OF ABNORMAL CELLS IN
 A PART OF THE BODY OR A MALIGNANT GROWTH OR  TUMOR  RESULTING  FROM  THE
 DIVISION OF ABNORMAL CELLS; AND
   (II)  AFFECTING  THE  PROSTATE  OR  BREAST,  LYMPHATIC, HEMATOLOGICAL,
 DIGESTIVE, URINARY, NEUROLOGICAL, OR REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS, OR MELANOMA.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02383-01-3
              

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