Bill Text: NY A10495 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-29 - referred to cities [A10495 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10495-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10495

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 29, 2024
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        Introduced   by   COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at  request  of  M.  of  A.
          Pheffer Amato) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to requiring the city of New York to replace body armor worn
          by emergency services personnel every five years

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision a of section 15-148 of the administrative code
     2  of the city of New York, as added by local law number 60 of the city  of
     3  New York for the year 2024, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  The  commissioner shall provide body armor to all employees of the
     5  department within the bureau of emergency medical services  who  provide
     6  emergency  medical  services.  Such body armor shall be of the type that
     7  the commissioner determines would be most suitable for the protection of
     8  such employees, and shall meet ballistic and stab  resistance  standards
     9  of  the  national  institute of justice or any successor standards. Such
    10  body armor shall be replaced every five years.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15760-01-4