Assembly Bill A5991

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers

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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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2023-A5991 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5436
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§8, 9, 10 & 11, Vol Ffs Ben L; amd §§8, 9, 10 & 11, Vol Amb Wkr Ben L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10300, S8086
2021-2022: A3597, S1340

2023-A5991 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.

2023-A5991 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5991
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. McMAHON, GUNTHER, BUTTENSCHON, COLTON, TAYLOR,
   SANTABARBARA, SIMON, SILLITTI, STERN, JACKSON, JONES, BRABENEC, CONRAD
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and  the  volun-
   teer  ambulance  workers'  benefit  law, in relation to increasing the
   amount of certain benefits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  8 of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, as
 amended by chapter 401 of the laws  of  2016,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  8.  Permanent total disability benefits. In the case of total disa-
 bility adjudged to be permanent the volunteer firefighter shall be  paid
 [six] TWELVE hundred dollars for each week during the continuance there-
 of.    Permanent  total  disability, within the meaning of this section,
 shall exist only if the earning capacity of  the  volunteer  firefighter
 has  been  lost permanently and totally as the result of the injury. The
 loss of both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both  legs,  or  both
 eyes,  or  any two thereof, shall, in the absence of conclusive proof to
 the contrary, constitute permanent total disability, but  in  all  other
 cases  permanent total disability shall be determined in accordance with
 the facts. Notwithstanding any other  provisions  of  this  chapter,  an
 injured  volunteer firefighter disabled due to the loss or total loss of
 use of both eyes, or both hands, or both arms, or  both  feet,  or  both
 legs,  or any two thereof shall not suffer any diminution of such weekly
 benefit by engaging in business or employment provided his or her weekly
 earnings or wages, when combined with his or her  weekly  benefit  shall
 not  be  in  excess  of  [eight]  SIXTEEN  hundred  dollars; and further
 provided that the application  of  this  section  shall  not  result  in
 reduction  of  benefits  which  an  injured volunteer firefighter who is
 disabled due to the loss or total loss of use  of  both  eyes,  or  both
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05826-01-3
              

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