Bill Text: NY A03033 | 2023-2024 | 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 23-13)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to local governments [A03033 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03033-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3033

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI,  WOERNER,  THIELE, PHEFFER AMATO,
          WALLACE, COOK, SANTABARBARA, SIMON, JOYNER, JEAN-PIERRE, LAVINE, HYND-
          MAN, BARRETT, STECK,  RAMOS,  BUTTENSCHON,  BRONSON,  CRUZ,  JACOBSON,
          SAYEGH,  HUNTER, LUPARDO, MORINELLO, DiPIETRO, McDONOUGH, RA, PALMESA-
          NO, NORRIS, MIKULIN, MANKTELOW, HAWLEY, DeSTEFANO, BRABENEC --  Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A.  BLANKENBUSH, 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 section 1 of item CC of subpart B of part XXX of chapter
     5  58 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as 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, 2025.
     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.
                                                                   LBD04121-01-3