Bill Text: NY S01210 | 2021-2022 | 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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-10-08 - SIGNED CHAP.462 [S01210 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01210-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1210

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        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 or department's physician as to
    13  the duties that may be assigned to certain personnel. In the event  that
    14  the program sponsor adopts different response requirements for different
    15  groups, participants in those groups shall be required to respond to the
    16  minimum  number  of  emergency calls assigned to their group by applying
    17  the 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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1210                             2

     1  emergency response protocol is adopted  in  order  to  address  a  state
     2  disaster  emergency,  as  such  term is defined in section twenty of the
     3  executive law, and applicable to the county or  counties  in  which  the
     4  fire department operates, in which case such amendment may be applied in
     5  the year adopted.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.