STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5586
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 13, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MANKTELOW, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A.  McDONOUGH, NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  establishing  a  data
          base of all firefighters
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  157-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 157-a. Firefighters' data base. 1. The office of fire prevention and
     4  control  shall establish and maintain a centralized reporting system and
     5  data base of the names and firefighting organizations of all  firefight-
     6  ers in the state.
     7    2.  Every  fire  department, fire company, fire district and any other
     8  entity employing professional or volunteer firefighters shall submit  to
     9  the  office  of  fire  prevention and control a list of all officers and
    10  inactive and active firefighting members, on or before  January  thirty-
    11  first  each  year. Such list shall include such information and shall be
    12  submitted in a form as determined by the state fire administrator.
    13    3. For the purposes of this section an  "active  firefighting  member"
    14  shall  be a firefighter who: (a) is a member of a firefighting organiza-
    15  tion,  (b)  regularly  participates  in  firefighting  duties,  (c)  has
    16  completed  a  basic firefighting course approved by the firefighting and
    17  code enforcement personnel standards and education commission,  and  (d)
    18  annually  completes  the  fire safety training course as required by the
    19  department of labor.
    20    4. On or before March thirty-first  each  year,  the  office  of  fire
    21  prevention  and control shall submit a copy of all information contained
    22  in the firefighters' data base to the governor, temporary  president  of
    23  the  senate,  speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate and
    24  the minority leader of the assembly.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
     2  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.  Effective  immediate-
     3  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
     4  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
     5  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.