Assembly Bill A8224

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows political subdivisions which contract to receive fire protection services to jointly establish a service award program with political subdivisions which contract to receive ambulance services

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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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2025-A8224 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7554
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §216-a, Gen Muni L

2025-A8224 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows political subdivisions which contract to receive fire protection services from a special fire company or department to jointly establish a service award program with political subdivisions which contract to receive ambulance services from the same special fire company or department.

2025-A8224 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8224
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. NORBER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing poli-
   tical  subdivisions which contract to receive fire protection services
   from a special fire company  or  department  to  jointly  establish  a
   service  award  program  with political subdivisions which contract to
   receive ambulance services from  the  same  special  fire  company  or
   department
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 10 of section 216-a  of  the  general
 municipal  law,  as  added by chapter 550 of the laws of 1995, paragraph
 (b) of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 714 of the laws of 2006,  and
 subdivision  10  as  renumbered  by chapter 452 of the laws of 2004, are
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  political  subdivisions  which  contract  to   receive   fire
 protection  services,  AMBULANCE  SERVICES,  OR BOTH from a special fire
 company or department may jointly establish a service award program  for
 the  volunteer  firefighters of such special fire company or department,
 provided, however, that no such service award program  shall  be  estab-
 lished  unless  each  and every political subdivision which contracts to
 receive fire protection services, AMBULANCE SERVICES, OR BOTH  from  the
 special fire company or department joins in establishing the program.
   2. A service award program for the volunteer firefighters of a special
 fire company or department shall be jointly established by the political
 subdivisions  which  contract to receive fire protection services, AMBU-
 LANCE SERVICES, OR BOTH from such fire company or department only if:
   (a) the governing board of each and every such  political  subdivision
 approves  an  agreement to jointly sponsor the program by an affirmative
 vote of at least sixty percent of the governing board; and

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11736-01-5
 A. 8224                             2

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