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Senate Bill S7554

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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2025-S7554 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8224
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §216-a, Gen Muni L

2025-S7554 (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-S7554 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7554 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7554
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 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
 S. 7554                             2

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