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- Print number 3589b
- Amend and recommit to local government
- Referred to local government
- Print number 3589a
- Amend and recommit to local government
- Referred to local government
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Provides total disability benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers for injuries sustained on or after July 1, 2014
In Senate Committee · Local Government · Sponsor William Magnarelli
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S3589B
Title of bill
An act to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and the volunteer ambulance workers' law, in relation to updating bene- fits and modernizing coverage for services provided in the line of duty
Purpose
This legislation updates and modernizes certain provisions of law relat- ing to the volunteer fire service. The purpose of the legislation is to more accurately reflect current emergency response practices and to bring the state of the law for volunteers into greater parity with other segments of the response community.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends the volunteer firefighters' benefit law to increase the award for temporary total disability and permanent total disability for firefighters injured in the line of duty on or after July 1, 2014 to six hundred fifty dollars.
Section two amends the volunteer ambulance workers law to increase the award for temporary total disability and permanent total disability for ambulance workers injured in the line of duty on or after July 1, 2014 to six hundred fifty dollars.
Section three is the effective date.
Justification
Awards under the volunteer firefighters benefit law and the volunteer benefits laws have not been increased since 1992. The workers compen- sation law, on the other hand, was amended in 2007 to provide an employ- ee who is totally disabled to receive an award equal to two thirds of the New York State average wage; an award that amounted to $775 in 2011. This bill seeks to narrow the gap between the workers compensation law and VFBL and VABL by increasing awards to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers who are totally disabled to six hundred fifty dollars per week.
Legislative history
2013 - S.3589A - Local Government Committee/A.485A - Passed Assembly. 2011-12 S.5624B Local Government Committee/A. 8563B - Passed Assembly.
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
Immediate.
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