STATE OF NEW YORK
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6367--A
Cal. No. 454
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, BRINDISI, BUCHWALD, SKOUFIS, GUNTHER,
WOERNER, WALLACE, JENNE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments --
ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and the volun-
teer ambulance workers' 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 eighteen. 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 eighteen, 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 eighteen. 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 eigh-
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.
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