Bill Text: NY A04894 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to enacting the volunteer firefighter and emergency medical service personnel job protection act

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to labor [A04894 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A04894-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4894
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 6, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Labor
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to enacting the volunteer
         firefighter and emergency medical service personnel job protection act
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "volunteer
    2  firefighter and emergency medical service personnel job protection act".
    3    S 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 207-b to read as
    4  follows:
    5    S 207-B. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES  PERSON-
    6  NEL  JOB  PROTECTION.  1. AN EMPLOYER MAY NOT FIRE AN EMPLOYEE WHO, WHEN
    7  ACTING AS A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER OR VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE
    8  WORKER, IS RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCY WHERE THE PRESIDENT OF THE  UNITED
    9  STATES  OR THE GOVERNOR HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN A COUNTY OF
   10  THE STATE.
   11    2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
   12    A. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER SHALL MEAN A FIREFIGHTER WHO DOES NOT RECEIVE
   13  MONETARY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICES TO A FIRE AUTHORITY AND WHO DOES  NOT
   14  WORK FOR ANOTHER FIRE AUTHORITY FOR MONETARY COMPENSATION; AND
   15    B.  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES  PERSONNEL  SHALL  MEAN  AN EMERGENCY
   16  MEDICAL SERVICE TECHNICIAN WHO DOES NOT  RECEIVE  MONETARY  COMPENSATION
   17  FOR  SERVICES TO A FIRST RESPONDER AGENCY, AN ORGANIZED RESCUE SQUAD, OR
   18  A COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEM, AND WHO  DOES  NOT  WORK  FOR
   19  ANOTHER RELATED ENTITY FOR MONETARY COMPENSATION.
   20    S 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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