Bill Text: NY S04631 | 2019-2020 | 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, 2021.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-08 - PRINT NUMBER 4631A [S04631 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04631-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4631--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 18, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GAUGHRAN, GRIFFO, BROOKS, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, HELMING,
          KAPLAN, MARTINEZ, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed,  and  when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom-
          mitted  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 committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and the volun-
          teer ambulance workers' benefit 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 twenty-one. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight
     5  or 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  twenty-one,  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 twenty-one. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight
    14  or  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 twen-
    17  ty-one, 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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