Bill Text: NY A07336 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-16)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to local governments [A07336 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07336-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7336

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 5, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI,  WOERNER,  THIELE, PHEFFER AMATO,
          WALLACE, COOK, SANTABARBARA, SIMON,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  GOTTFRIED,  JOYNER,
          JEAN-PIERRE, LAVINE, HYNDMAN, BARRETT, STECK, BRONSON, RAMOS, BUTTENS-
          CHON,  JACOBSON,  GRIFFIN, SAYEGH, CRUZ, GALEF, HUNTER, LUPARDO, MORI-
          NELLO, DiPIETRO, BYRNE, McDONOUGH, RA,  PALMESANO,  HAWLEY,  BRABENEC,
          DeSTEFANO, MANKTELOW, MIKULIN, NORRIS, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by
          --  M.  of A.   BLANKENBUSH, DE LA ROSA, M. MILLER, WALSH -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend chapter 668 of the laws of 1977, amending the  volunteer
          firefighters'  benefit  law,  relating to disability due to disease or
          malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries, in relation  to  making
          such provisions permanent

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

     1    Section 1. Sections 4 and 5 of chapter 668 of the laws of 1977, amend-
     2  ing the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, relating to disability  due
     3  to  disease  or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries, section 4
     4  as amended by section 1 of item CC of subpart B of part XXX  of  chapter
     5  58 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows:
     6    §  4.  [The provisions of section two of this act shall remain in full
     7  force and effect to and including the thirtieth day of June, 2025.
     8    § 5.] This act shall take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  July  next
     9  succeeding  the  date  on which it shall have become a law, or if signed
    10  after the first day of July, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, shall  take
    11  effect immediately, and shall apply only in cases where the injury caus-
    12  ing death or disability occurred on or after such date of taking effect.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03831-02-1