Bill Text: NY A07603 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes EMTs within provisions for awards to spouses of certain employees killed in the line of duty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-20 - substituted by s5706 [A07603 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07603-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7603 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing awards to spouses of emergency medical techni- cians and advanced emergency medical technicians who are killed while engaged in the discharge of duty The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3-401 of the administrative code of the city of New 2 York, as amended by local law number 27 of the city of New York for the 3 year 1998 and the closing paragraph as amended by chapter 582 of the 4 laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 5 § 3-401 Awards to spouses of killed firefighters, police officers 6 [and], transit police officers, emergency medical technicians and 7 advanced emergency medical technicians. The mayor is authorized and 8 empowered to make an award to the spouse or domestic partner of a member 9 of the uniformed force of the police department, fire department, 10 including emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical 11 technicians employed by the fire department, or uniformed transit police 12 force, maintained by the New York city transit authority, killed while 13 engaged in the discharge of duty. Such award shall equal the annual 14 salary of such member at the time of death, but in no case less than the 15 full salary payable to a first grade police officer, firefighter [or], 16 transit police officer, emergency medical technician or advanced emer- 17 gency medical technician at the date of death of such employee. 18 In case there shall be no spouse or domestic partner surviving such 19 member, the award shall be made to the minor child or children surviving 20 such member. In case there shall be no spouse or domestic partner nor 21 child nor children so surviving the award may be made to the dependent 22 mother, father, or other dependents of such member. Such award shall be 23 made in one payment as soon after the death of such member as may be EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11176-01-7A. 7603 2 1 possible and shall be in addition to any pension, award or other allow- 2 ances authorized by law. 3 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and solely 4 for the purposes of this section, a member otherwise covered by this 5 section shall be deemed to have been killed while engaged in the 6 discharge of duty upon which his or her membership is based, provided 7 that such member was in active service upon which his or her membership 8 is based at the time that such member was ordered to active duty pursu- 9 ant to Title 10 of the United States Code, with the armed forces of the 10 United States or to service in the uniformed services pursuant to Chap- 11 ter 43 of Title 38 of the United States Code, and such member died while 12 on such active duty or service in the uniformed services on or after 13 June fourteenth, two thousand five while serving on such active military 14 duty or in the uniformed services. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
