Bill Text: NY S04049 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4049

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to requiring coverage for volunteer firefighters for full cancer screenings upon entry of service to a fire department or fire company and annually thereafter; provides that the costs of such screenings shall be covered by the state.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S04049 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S04049-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4049

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS, ASHBY, FERNANDEZ, GRIFFO, ROLISON, WEBB,
          WEBER -- read twice and  ordered  printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN  ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation to
          coverage for cancer screenings

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 5 of the volunteer firefighters'
     2  benefit law is amended by adding a new paragraph q to read as follows:
     3    q. While, within the state, undergoing a  full  cancer  screening,  as
     4  determined  by  the  commissioner  of health, upon entry of service to a
     5  fire department or fire company and annually thereafter.  The  costs  of
     6  such full cancer screenings shall be borne entirely by the state.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03046-01-5