Bill Text: NY A00563 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-18)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to local governments [A00563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00563-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           563
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced   by   M.   of   A.  BUCHWALD,  WOERNER,  MORINELLO,  THIELE,
          PHEFFER AMATO, DiPIETRO, WALLACE, COOK, SANTABARBARA,  JAFFEE,  ORTIZ,
          SIMON,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  D'URSO, GOTTFRIED, BYRNE, McDONOUGH, RA, CROUCH,
          PALMESANO, JOYNER, JEAN-PIERRE, BLAKE, LAVINE, RAIA, HYNDMAN, BARRETT,
          STECK, BRONSON, RAMOS, ZEBROWSKI -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.
          BLANKENBUSH, DE LA ROSA, M. L. MILLER, WALSH -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Local Governments
        AN  ACT to amend chapter 668 of the laws of 1977, amending the volunteer
          firefighters' benefit law, relating to disability due  to  disease  or
          malfunction  of  the heart or coronary arteries, 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:
     1    Section 1. Sections 4 and 5 of chapter 668 of the laws of 1977, amend-
     2  ing  the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, relating to disability due
     3  to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries,  section  4
     4  as  amended  by  chapter  26 of the laws of 2015, are amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    § 4. [The provisions of section two of this act shall remain  in  full
     7  force and effect to and including the thirtieth day of June, 2020.
     8    §  5.]  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first day of July next
     9  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law,  or  if  signed
    10  after  the first day of July, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, shall take
    11  effect immediately, and shall apply only in cases where the injury caus-
    12  ing death or disability occurred on or after such date of taking effect.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00696-01-9