Bill Text: NY S08340 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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) 2024-06-04 - PRINT NUMBER 8340A [S08340 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08340-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8340--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sens. SKOUFIS, FERNANDEZ, GRIFFO, ROLISON, WEBB, WEBER --
          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  commit-
          tee

        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.
                                                                   LBD13444-07-4