Senate Bill S8074

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a battery storage fire training program

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government 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-S8074 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §209-w, Gen Muni L; amd §158, Exec L

2025-S8074 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a battery storage fire training program under the purview of the state fire administrator.

2025-S8074 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8074 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8074
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RHOADS -- 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  and  the  executive  law,  in
   relation to battery storage fire training for firefighters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 209-w  of  the  general  municipal
 law,  as  amended  by section 10 of part A of chapter 101 of the laws of
 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,  special,  or  local
 law  or  charter  to  the contrary, no person shall, after the effective
 date of regulations adopted by the state fire administrator pursuant  to
 section  one  hundred  fifty-eight  of  the  executive  law,  receive an
 original appointment on a permanent basis as a fire fighter of any coun-
 ty, city, town, village, or fire district unless such person has  previ-
 ously been awarded a certificate by the state fire administrator attest-
 ing to [his or her] SUCH PERSON'S satisfactory completion of an approved
 fire  basic training program AND AN APPROVED BATTERY STORAGE FIRE TRAIN-
 ING PROGRAM; and every person who is appointed on a temporary  basis  or
 for  a  probationary  term  or on other than a permanent basis as a fire
 fighter of any county,  city,  town,  village  or  fire  district  shall
 forfeit  [his  or her] SUCH PERSON'S position as such unless [he or she]
 SUCH PERSON previously has satisfactorily completed, or within the  time
 prescribed  by  regulations  promulgated by the state fire administrator
 pursuant to section one hundred fifty-eight of the executive law, satis-
 factorily completes, a fire  basic  training  program  AND  AN  APPROVED
 BATTERY STORAGE FIRE TRAINING PROGRAM for temporary or probationary fire
 fighters  and  is  awarded a certificate by the state fire administrator
 attesting thereto.
   § 2. Section 158 of the executive law, as added by section 28 of  part
 B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11738-01-5
              

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