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Senate Bill S8648

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to training stipends paid by the office of fire prevention and control to volunteer firefighters

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2025-S8648 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7331
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §200-aa, Gen Muni L

2025-S8648 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the office of fire prevention and control to pay training stipends in specific amounts to volunteer firefighters for completion of certain firefighter trainings; provides that if a volunteer fire company pays training stipends to volunteer firefighters in an amount below what is otherwise required to be paid by OFPC, OFPC shall pay the remaining amount.

2025-S8648 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8648 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8648
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 7, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ASHBY  -- 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  training
   stipends  paid  by the office of fire prevention and control to volun-
   teer firefighters
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  3  and  4  of section 200-aa of the general
 municipal law, as added by section 2 of part H of chapter 55 of the laws
 of 2023, are amended to read as follows:
   3. The office of fire prevention and control may make available  state
 funds   through   a  training  stipend  to  volunteer  firefighters  for
 completion of certain firefighter training, as identified and  published
 by  the  office  of fire prevention and control; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 THE OFFICE OF FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL  SHALL  MAKE  AVAILABLE  STATE
 FUNDS  THROUGH  A  TRAINING  STIPEND  TO  VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS FOR THE
 COMPLETION OF THE FOLLOWING FIREFIGHTER  TRAININGS,  AS  IDENTIFIED  AND
 PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL, IN THE FOLLOWING
 AMOUNTS:
   (A)  A  STIPEND OF FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR COMPLETION OF THE BASIC
 EXTERIOR FIREFIGHTING OPERATIONS WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIAL FIRST RESPONDER
 OPERATIONS COURSE, OR EQUIVALENT; AND
   (B) A STIPEND OF TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS  FOR  COMPLETION  OF  THE
 SELF-CONTAINED  BREATHING  APPARATUS  WITH  INTERIOR FIGHTING OPERATIONS
 COURSE, OR EQUIVALENT.
   4. No volunteer firefighter [may] SHALL  receive  a  training  stipend
 from  both  a volunteer fire company pursuant to subdivision two of this
 section and the office of fire prevention and control pursuant to subdi-
 vision three of this section for  completion  of  the  same  firefighter
 training; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF A VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY PROVIDES A
 TRAINING  STIPEND  TO  A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER FOR COMPLETION OF A FIRE-
 FIGHTER TRAINING LISTED UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OR (B) OF SUBDIVISION  THREE
 OF THIS SECTION IN AN AMOUNT LESS THAN THE AMOUNT DIRECTED TO BE PAID BY
 THE  OFFICE  OF  FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL UNDER SUCH PARAGRAPH (A) OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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