Bill Text: NY S04207 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the maximum contribution for certain service award programs for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-08 - SIGNED CHAP.474 [S04207 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04207-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4207--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation  to  the  maximum
          contribution for certain service award programs
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 218  of  the  general  municipal
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 452 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (b) The sponsor of a defined contribution plan shall contribute to the
     5  plan a fixed amount of money, as determined by the sponsor, on behalf of
     6  each participant who is credited with a year of service. The minimum and
     7  maximum contribution requirements for  a  defined  contribution  service
     8  award program shall be as follows. The minimum contribution shall be one
     9  hundred  twenty  dollars  per  year of service. The maximum contribution
    10  shall be [seven] twelve hundred dollars per year of service. The maximum
    11  number of years of  service  for  which  a  participant  may  receive  a
    12  contribution shall be forty years. The sponsor shall appropriate annual-
    13  ly an amount sufficient to pay the contributions.
    14    §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 219-f of the general municipal law, as
    15  amended by chapter 452 of the laws  of  2004,  is  amended  to  read  as
    16  follows:
    17    1.  The  sponsor  of  a  service award program shall contribute to the
    18  program a fixed amount of money, as determined by the sponsor, on behalf
    19  of each participant who is credited with a year  of  ambulance  service.
    20  The minimum contribution shall be one hundred twenty dollars per year of
    21  ambulance  service.  The  maximum  contribution  shall be [seven] twelve
    22  hundred dollars per year of ambulance service.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10432-02-9
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     1    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided,  however,  any
     2  change  or  amendment  to a service award program made by this act shall
     3  only take effect as of the first of January next  succeeding  completion
     4  of the proceedings required for adoption of such change or amendment and
     5  shall only apply prospectively.