STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4631 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 18, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GAUGHRAN, GRIFFO -- 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 and the volun- teer ambulance workers' benefit law, in relation to updating benefits and modernizing coverage for services provided in the line of duty The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The volunteer firefighters' benefit law is amended by 2 adding a new section 9-a to read as follows: 3 § 9-a. Total disability benefits for injuries on or after July first, 4 two thousand nineteen. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight 5 or nine of this article, in the case of temporary total disability and 6 permanent total disability when the volunteer firefighter is injured in 7 the line of duty on or after July first, two thousand nineteen, said 8 firefighter shall receive six hundred fifty dollars per week during the 9 continuance thereof. 10 § 2. The volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law is amended by adding 11 a new section 9-a to read as follows: 12 § 9-a. Total disability benefits for injuries on or after July first, 13 two thousand nineteen. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight 14 or nine of this article, in the case of temporary total disability and 15 permanent total disability when the volunteer ambulance worker is 16 injured in the line of duty on or after July first, two thousand nine- 17 teen, said ambulance worker shall receive six hundred fifty dollars per 18 week during the continuance thereof. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00193-01-9