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Assembly Bill A8008

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of certain crimes

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2025-A8008 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7316
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §217, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8976

2025-A8008 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district.

2025-A8008 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8008
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD, SLATER -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the
   forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program
   to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of certain crimes

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  (m)  of section 217 of the general municipal
 law, as added by chapter 617 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   (m) A participant who is convicted of the crime of arson in any degree
 as defined in the penal law OR ANY OTHER FELONY DEFINED IN THE PENAL LAW
 WHERE  SUCH  CRIME  WAS  COMMITTED  AGAINST A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT,
 VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY, FIRE DISTRICT, OR FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT shall
 not be eligible to receive benefits from a  service  award  program  and
 shall  forfeit  any and all rights [he or she] SUCH PARTICIPANT may have
 had to past or future benefits pursuant to a service award program.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05037-01-5

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