Bill Text: NY A05933 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that volunteer firefighters who die or have died in the line of duty, as determined by an authoritative agency, have their names inscribed on the New York state fallen firefighter memorial.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-17 - substituted by s4655 [A05933 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A05933-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5933
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 2, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WEISENBERG, SCHIMEL, SWEENEY, HOOPER, ENGLE-
BRIGHT, M. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, BURLING,
CALHOUN, CRESPO, CROUCH, GIGLIO, MAYERSOHN, McKEVITT, MURRAY, RAIA,
SALADINO, SCARBOROUGH, THIELE, TITONE, TOWNS -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation to
the New York state fallen firefighter memorial
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 7 of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 47 to read as follows:
3 47. IN THE CASE OF A DEATH OF A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER, REGARDLESS OF
4 WHETHER SUCH DEATH OCCURRED BEFORE, ON OR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
5 THIS SUBDIVISION, THAT RESULTS FROM SERVICES PERFORMED IN THE LINE OF
6 DUTY, AS DETERMINED BY AN AUTHORITATIVE AGENCY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMIT-
7 ED TO, THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD, THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF
8 JUSTICE, THE OFFICE OF FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OR PURSUANT TO THIS
9 CHAPTER, THE NAME OF THAT FIREFIGHTER SHALL BE INSCRIBED UPON THE NEW
10 YORK STATE FALLEN FIREFIGHTER MEMORIAL ON THE CAPITOL MALL IN ALBANY.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04215-01-1
