Bill Text: NY S08340 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring coverage for volunteer firefighters for full cancer screenings upon entry of service to a fire department or fire company and annually thereafter.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-18 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S08340 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08340-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8340

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation  to
          coverage for cancer screenings

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 5 of the  volunteer  firefighters'
     2  benefit law is amended by adding a new paragraph q to read as follows:
     3    q.  While,  within  the  state, undergoing a full cancer screening, as
     4  determined by the commissioner of health, upon entry  of  service  to  a
     5  fire department or fire company and annually thereafter.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.








         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13444-01-3