Bill Text: NY A08018 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the reporting by the office of fire prevention and control; requires reporting statewide training hours allocated to each firefighter; provides such report identify the fire department or district providing training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A08018 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08018-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8018
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 25, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive  law, in relation to reporting by the
          office of fire prevention and control
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  17  of  section 156 of the executive law, as
     2  added by chapter 615 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     3    17. Issue a written report to the  governor  and  legislature,  on  or
     4  before  February  fifteenth of each year, on firefighter training activ-
     5  ities.  Such report shall include at least  the  following  information:
     6  the  minimum  training  hours allocated on a county-by-county basis, the
     7  training hours requested by each county, any unfulfilled  training  hour
     8  requests,  [and] the number of hours used by each county on a county-by-
     9  county basis, and a statewide total of the number of hours allocated  to
    10  each firefighter. Such report shall also identify the fire department or
    11  district  providing the training including the number of hours of train-
    12  ing and the type of training for each  firefighter.  In  addition,  such
    13  report  shall  also list the names of those firefighters qualified to do
    14  interior firefighting. The written report shall be prominently posted on
    15  the division of homeland security  and  emergency  services  website  no
    16  later March first of each year.
    17    § 2. 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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