| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 08, 2025 |
referred to local government |
Senate Bill S906
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 40th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R) 43rd Senate District
(D, WF) 31st Senate District
(D, WF) 4th Senate District
(R, C) 2nd Senate District
2025-S906 (ACTIVE) - Details
2025-S906 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S906
SPONSOR: HARCKHAM
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend chapter 606 of the laws of 2006, amending the volunteer
firefighters' benefit law, relating to creating a presumption relating
to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters, in
relation to making such provisions permanent
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this legislation is to make permanent the long-standing
law governing disability determinations for volunteer firefighters due
to disease or malfunction of the lungs.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends chapter 606 relating to the Volunteer Firefighter Bene-
fit Law that governs disability resulting from lung disease by making
this provision permanent instead of maintaining the process heretofore
used to continually renewing its sunset date.
2025-S906 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
906
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ASHBY, MARTINEZ, MAY, RHOADS, ROLISON,
WEBER, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend chapter 606 of the laws of 2006, amending the volunteer
firefighters' benefit law, relating to creating a presumption relating
to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters, in
relation to making such provisions permanent
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 2 of chapter 606 of the laws of 2006, amending the
volunteer firefighters' benefit law, relating to creating a presumption
relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefight-
ers, as amended by section 1 of item BB of subpart B of part XXX of
chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately [and shall expire and be
deemed repealed June 30, 2025].
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00387-01-5
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