Bill Text: NY S02719 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides total disability benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers for injuries sustained on or after July 1, 2016.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-22 - PRINT NUMBER 2719A [S02719 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02719-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2719--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 28, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  GRIFFO,  FUNKE,  LARKIN, SEWARD -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Local  Government  -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Government
          in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and the volun-
          teer ambulance workers' law, in  relation  to  updating  benefits  and
          modernizing coverage for services provided in the line of duty
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   The volunteer firefighters' benefit  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new section 9-a to read as follows:
     3    §  9-a. Total disability benefits for injuries on or after July first,
     4  two thousand sixteen. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight or
     5  nine of this article, in the case  of  temporary  total  disability  and
     6  permanent  total disability when the volunteer firefighter is injured in
     7  the line of duty on or after July  first,  two  thousand  sixteen,  said
     8  firefighter  shall receive six hundred fifty dollars per week during the
     9  continuance thereof.
    10    § 2. The volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law is amended by adding
    11  a new section 9-a to read as follows:
    12    § 9-a. Total disability benefits for injuries on or after July  first,
    13  two thousand sixteen. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight or
    14  nine  of  this  article,  in  the case of temporary total disability and
    15  permanent total  disability  when  the  volunteer  ambulance  worker  is
    16  injured  in  the  line  of  duty  on  or  after July first, two thousand
    17  sixteen, said ambulance worker shall receive six hundred  fifty  dollars
    18  per week during the continuance thereof.
    19    § 3. 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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