Bill Text: NY A06401 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6401 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows for a program sponsor to amend a point system as part of a service award program.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-03 - substituted by s1210 [A06401 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06401-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6401

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 17, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing for a
          program  sponsor  to  amend  a point system as part of a service award
          program

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  217  of  the general municipal law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (q) to read as follows:
     3    (q) The program sponsor may make adjustments to the  participation  in
     4  department  responses  point  system  category provided for in paragraph
     5  (vi) of subdivision (c) of this section in the event that  such  program
     6  sponsor  adopts  written  emergency response protocols setting different
     7  emergency response requirements for the fire department, fire companies,
     8  squads and units thereof such that certain participants are not  permit-
     9  ted  to  respond and are restricted from responding to all non-emergency
    10  rescue and first aid squad calls and/or all emergency rescue  and  first
    11  aid  squad calls.   Such restrictions on response may relate to determi-
    12  nations made by the district physician or department's physician  as  to
    13  the  duties that may be assigned to certain personnel. In the event that
    14  the program sponsor adopts different response requirements for different
    15  groups, participants in those groups shall be required to respond to the
    16  minimum number of emergency calls assigned to their  group  by  applying
    17  the percentage provided for in paragraph (vi) of subdivision (c) of this
    18  section.  Notwithstanding  the provisions of section two hundred sixteen
    19  of this article, a point system amendment to address  written  emergency
    20  response  protocols  may  be adopted by the affirmative vote of at least
    21  sixty percent of such governing board, without referendum.  Such  amend-
    22  ment shall only take effect as of the first day of January next succeed-
    23  ing  the  completion  of  the  proceedings  required for adoption of the
    24  amendment and shall only apply  prospectively  unless  the  new  written

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01234-02-1

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     1  emergency  response  protocol  is  adopted  in  order to address a state
     2  disaster emergency, as such term is defined in  section  twenty  of  the
     3  executive  law,  and  applicable  to the county or counties in which the
     4  fire department operates, in which case such amendment may be applied in
     5  the year adopted.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.