Bill Text: NY S08019 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes fire districts to expend from revenues amounts appropriated for cost of insurance to provide firefighters with an enhanced cancer disability benefit insurance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-18 - SUBSTITUTED BY A10327A [S08019 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08019-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8019--A
            Cal. No. 949
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 20, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sens. GRIFFO, GALLIVAN, ROBACH -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Local
          Governments  --  reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to
          first and second report, ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT to amend the town law, in relation to authorizing fire districts
          to expend from revenues amounts appropriated for cost of insurance  to
          provide firefighters with an enhanced cancer disability benefit insur-
          ance program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 18 of section 176 of the town law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph 17 to read as follows:
     3    (17) the cost of insurance secured  to  indemnify  the  fire  district
     4  against liability for benefits required to be paid or furnished pursuant
     5  to  the  enhanced  cancer  disability benefit established in section two
     6  hundred five-cc of the general municipal law,  or  for  the  payment  of
     7  benefits required to be paid or furnished pursuant to such law by a fire
     8  district which is a self-insurer under such law.
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    10  manner as chapter 334 of the laws of 2017 takes effect. Effective  imme-
    11  diately,  the addition and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    12  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    13  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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