Bill Text: NY A10327 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes fire districts to expend from revenues amounts appropriated for cost of insurance to provide firefighters with an enhanced cancer disability benefit insurance program.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-24 - signed chap.248 [A10327 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10327-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10327--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 10, 2018
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, JONES, BRINDISI, D'URSO, HUNTER, STECK,
          RAIA, NORRIS -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Local
          Governments  --  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to authorizing fire  districts
          to  expend from revenues amounts appropriated for cost of insurance to
          provide firefighters with an enhanced cancer disability benefit insur-
          ance program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 18 of section 176 of the town law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph 17 to read as follows:
     3    (17)  the  cost  of  insurance  secured to indemnify the fire district
     4  against liability for benefits required to be paid or furnished pursuant
     5  to the enhanced cancer disability benefit  established  in  section  two
     6  hundred  five-cc  of  the  general  municipal law, or for the payment of
     7  benefits required to be paid or furnished pursuant to such law by a fire
     8  district which is a self-insurer under such law.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    10  manner  as chapter 334 of the laws of 2017 takes effect. Effective imme-
    11  diately, the addition and/or repeal of any rule or regulation  necessary
    12  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    13  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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