Bill Text: NY S08574 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires reporting of statewide training hours allocated to each firefighter; requires such report shall identify the fire department or district providing the training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-15 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S08574 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08574-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8574

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 15, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  reporting  by  the
          office of fire prevention and control

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 17 of section 156  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 615 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     3    17.  Issue  a  written  report  to the governor and legislature, on or
     4  before February fifteenth of each year, on firefighter  training  activ-
     5  ities.    Such  report shall include at least the following information:
     6  the minimum training hours allocated on a  county-by-county  basis,  the
     7  training  hours  requested by each county, any unfulfilled training hour
     8  requests, [and] the number of hours used by each county on a  county-by-
     9  county  basis, and a statewide total of the number of hours allocated to
    10  each firefighter. Such report shall also identify the fire department or
    11  district providing the training including the number of hours of  train-
    12  ing  and  the  type  of training for each firefighter. In addition, such
    13  report shall also list the names of those firefighters qualified  to  do
    14  interior firefighting. The written report shall be prominently posted on
    15  the  division  of  homeland  security  and emergency services website no
    16  later than March first of each year.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14565-01-4