Bill Text: NY A10928 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for a program sponsor to amend a point system as part of a service award program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - referred to local governments [A10928 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10928-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10928

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 17, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Thiele) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing for a
          program sponsor to amend a point system as part  of  a  service  award
          program

          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 (q) to read as follows:
     3    (q)  The  program sponsor may make adjustments to the participation in
     4  department responses point system category  provided  for  in  paragraph
     5  (vi)  of  subdivision (c) of this section in the event that such program
     6  sponsor adopts written emergency response  protocols  setting  different
     7  emergency response requirements for the fire department, fire companies,
     8  squads  and units thereof such that certain participants are not permit-
     9  ted to respond and are restricted from responding to  all  non-emergency
    10  rescue  and  first aid squad calls and/or all emergency rescue and first
    11  aid squad calls.  Such restrictions on response may relate  to  determi-
    12  nations  made  by  the  district  physician as to the duties that may be
    13  assigned to certain personnel. In the event  that  the  program  sponsor
    14  adopts  different  response  requirements  for different groups, partic-
    15  ipants in those groups shall be  required  to  respond  to  the  minimum
    16  number  of  emergency  calls  assigned  to  their  group by applying the
    17  percentage provided for in paragraph (vi) of  subdivision  (c)  of  this
    18  section.  Notwithstanding  the provisions of section two hundred sixteen
    19  of this article, a point system amendment to address  written  emergency
    20  response  protocols  may  be adopted by the affirmative vote of at least
    21  sixty percent of such governing board, without referendum.  Such  amend-
    22  ment shall only take effect as of the first day of January next succeed-
    23  ing  the  completion  of  the  proceedings  required for adoption of the
    24  amendment and shall only apply  prospectively  unless  the  new  written
    25  emergency  response  protocol  is  adopted  in  order to address a state
    26  disaster emergency, as such term is defined in  section  twenty  of  the
    27  executive  law,  and  applicable  to the county or counties in which the
    28  fire department operates, in which case such amendment may be applied in
    29  the year adopted.
    30    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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