Bill Text: NY A08991 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to coverage for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers performing emergency services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-17 - signed chap.496 [A08991 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08991-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8991
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 6, 2014
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Local Governments
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and  the  volunteer  ambulance
         workers' benefit law, in relation to coverage for volunteer firefight-
         ers and volunteer ambulance workers performing emergency services
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 209-i of the general municipal law  is  amended  by
    2  adding a new subdivision 1-b to read as follows:
    3    1-B.  IN  THE  EVENT  THAT  AN  ACTIVE  VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER PROVIDES
    4  SERVICES UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION WHEN THERE IS  NO  JURIS-
    5  DICTIONAL  OFFICER  IN COMMAND PRESENT, SUCH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER SHALL
    6  BE ENTITLED TO COVERAGE UNDER THE VOLUNTEER  FIREFIGHTERS'  BENEFIT  LAW
    7  PROVIDED  THE FIRE COMPANY OR MUNICIPALITY THE VOLUNTEER SERVES ADOPTS A
    8  RESOLUTION GRANTING COVERAGE FOR THE PROVISION OF  SUCH  SERVICES.  UPON
    9  ARRIVAL  OF A JURISDICTIONAL OFFICER IN COMMAND, SUCH VOLUNTEER SHALL BE
   10  ENTITLED TO BENEFITS IN THE MANNER SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF  THIS
   11  SECTION.
   12    S  2.  Subdivision  1 of section 5 of the volunteer ambulance workers'
   13  benefit law is amended by adding a new paragraph 1 to read as follows:
   14    1. WHILE, WITHIN THE STATE, PERFORMING DUTIES IN AN  AREA  OTHER  THAN
   15  HIS OR HER OWN RELATED TO THE DELIVERY OF EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE PRIOR TO
   16  THE  ARRIVAL OF THE AMBULANCE DEPARTMENT, AMBULANCE COMPANY, OR ANY UNIT
   17  THEREOF THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROVISION OF SUCH CARE IN THAT AREA,
   18  PROVIDED THAT THE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKERS'  MUNICIPALITY,  AMBULANCE
   19  DEPARTMENT,  AMBULANCE COMPANY, OR ANY UNIT THEREOF, ADOPTS A RESOLUTION
   20  GRANTING COVERAGE FOR SUCH DUTIES. UPON THE  ARRIVAL  OF  THE  AMBULANCE
   21  DEPARTMENT, AMBULANCE COMPANY, OR ANY UNIT THEREOF RESPONSIBLE FOR EMER-
   22  GENCY  HEALTH CARE IN THE AREA, SUCH VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER SHALL BE
   23  ENTITLED TO BENEFITS IN THE MANNER SET FORTH  IN  PARAGRAPH  B  OF  THIS
   24  SUBDIVISION.
   25    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   26  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14055-01-4