Bill Text: NY A03242 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a volunteer firefighter training fund; makes an appropriation relating therefor.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to local governments [A03242 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03242-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3242

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the state finance law,  in
          relation to creating a volunteer firefighter training fund; and making
          an appropriation therefor

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

     1    Section 1. Section 72-g of the general municipal  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  Within  amounts appropriated therefor and based on availability of
     4  funds, the chief officer of the fire department of  a  municipal  corpo-
     5  ration  or  fire district, subject to any rules or regulations governing
     6  such department, may apply for  money  from  the  volunteer  firefighter
     7  training  fund  established  under  section  ninety-nine-qq of the state
     8  finance law for any payment made under this section.
     9    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-qq to
    10  read as follows:
    11    § 99-qq. Volunteer firefighter  training  fund.  1.  There  is  hereby
    12  established  in  the  joint  custody  of  the  state comptroller and the
    13  commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as  the  "volun-
    14  teer firefighter training fund".
    15    2.  Such  fund  shall  consist  of all revenues received from contrib-
    16  utions, donations and all other moneys appropriated, credited or  trans-
    17  ferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.
    18    3. Moneys of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature, may
    19  be  expended  for  the  training of volunteer firefighters under section
    20  seventy-two-g of the general municipal law. Moneys shall be paid out  of
    21  the  fund  on the audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers
    22  certified or approved by the comptroller.
    23    § 3. The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000), or so  much  thereof
    24  as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the volunteer firefighter

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  training  fund  as  established  pursuant  to section 99-qq of the state
     2  finance law from any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to
     3  the credit of the account not otherwise appropriated  for  services  and
     4  expenses  of the account for the purposes of carrying out the provisions
     5  of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on the audit  and  warrant  of
     6  the  comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the comptroller in
     7  the manner prescribed by law.
     8    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.