Bill Text: NY A10438 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the determination of points for service award programs for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers during a state disaster emergency.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-5)
Status: (Passed) 2020-06-17 - SIGNED CHAP.113 [A10438 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10438-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10438--A IN ASSEMBLY May 11, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Thiele, Stern, Woerner, McDonald, Seawright, Schimminger, Frontus, Dickens, Griffin, Ortiz, Paulin, D'Urso, Jaffee, Buttenschon, Wallace, Lifton, Otis) -- 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 general municipal law, in relation to the determi- nation of points for service award programs for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers during a state disaster emergency; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 217 of the general municipal law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (p) to read as follows: 3 (p) For purposes of determining total points earned for a calendar 4 year in which a state disaster emergency, as defined in section twenty 5 of the executive law, has been declared pursuant to executive order 6 number two hundred two of two thousand twenty, as amended, to address 7 the outbreak of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, an active volunteer fire- 8 fighter service award program may provide for the crediting of up to 9 five additional points per month, prorated for periods of less than one 10 month, to each active volunteer firefighter for each month that special 11 emergency response rules were in place restricting firefighter responses 12 to emergency responses and/or restricting the holding of activities for 13 which points could be earned due to guidelines related to the state 14 disaster emergency. A political subdivision electing to provide the 15 additional points authorized under this subdivision shall adopt a resol- 16 ution by April thirtieth, two thousand twenty-one determining the number 17 of additional points to be credited per month, provided that any addi- 18 tional points credited pursuant to this subdivision shall be in addition 19 to any other points earned pursuant to this section during the state 20 disaster emergency. 21 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 219-e of the general municipal law is 22 amended by adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16211-06-0A. 10438--A 2 1 (k) Determination of points. For purposes of determining total points 2 earned for a calendar year in which a state disaster emergency, as 3 defined in section twenty of the executive law, has been declared pursu- 4 ant to executive order number two hundred two of two thousand twenty, as 5 amended, to address the outbreak of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, an 6 active volunteer ambulance worker award program may provide for the 7 crediting of up to five additional points per month, prorated for peri- 8 ods of less than one month, to each volunteer ambulance worker for each 9 month that special emergency response rules were in place restricting 10 ambulance workers responses to emergency responses and/or restricting 11 the holding of activities for which points could be earned due to guide- 12 lines related to the state disaster emergency. A political subdivision 13 electing to provide the additional points authorized under this subdivi- 14 sion shall adopt a resolution by April thirtieth, two thousand twenty- 15 one determining the number of additional points to be credited per 16 month, provided that any additional points credited pursuant to this 17 paragraph shall be in addition to any other points earned pursuant to 18 this section during the state disaster emergency. 19 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 219-m of the general municipal law is 20 amended by adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows: 21 (k) Determination of points. For purposes of determining total points 22 earned for a calendar year in which a state disaster emergency, as 23 defined in section twenty of the executive law, has been declared pursu- 24 ant to executive order number two hundred two of two thousand twenty, as 25 amended, to address the outbreak of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, an 26 active volunteer ambulance worker award program may provide for the 27 crediting of up to five additional points per month, prorated for peri- 28 ods of less than one month, to each volunteer ambulance worker for each 29 month that special emergency response rules were in place restricting 30 ambulance workers responses to emergency responses and/or restricting 31 the holding of activities for which points could be earned due to guide- 32 lines related to the state disaster emergency. A political subdivision 33 electing to provide the additional points authorized under this subdivi- 34 sion shall adopt a resolution by April thirtieth, two thousand twenty- 35 one determining the number of additional points to be credited per 36 month, provided that any additional points credited pursuant to this 37 paragraph shall be in addition to any other points earned pursuant to 38 this section during the state disaster emergency. 39 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 40 deemed repealed December 31, 2022.
