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