What's happening
This bill allows spouses of emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians killed in the line of duty to receive awards similar to those for police and firefighters.
Why it matters
Expands recognition and financial support to EMT and advanced EMT families. By including emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians in the same category as police, firefighters, and transit police, the bill acknowledges the comparable risks they face and ensures their spouses or partners receive the same financial protections if killed in the line of duty.
May improve morale and retention among EMS personnel. Extending these death benefits could help EMS agencies recruit and retain staff by demonstrating institutional support and valuing their service on par with other first responders.
Addresses equity among first responders. The amendment corrects a previous oversight by treating all frontline emergency personnel equally regarding posthumous support for their loved ones, fostering a sense of fairness across the emergency services.
Provides significant financial relief to survivors. The award is based on the fallen worker’s annual salary (with a minimum equivalent to a first-grade emergency worker), offering immediate and substantial assistance to families coping with the sudden loss of income.
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Support for Fallen EMT Families
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
History
- Substituted by S5706
- Rules report cal.607
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reference changed to ways and means
- Referred to governmental employees
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Aid for Fallen EMT Spouses
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Martin J. Golden
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7603
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 3, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing awards to spouses of emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians who are killed while engaged in the discharge of duty
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 3-401 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 27 of the city of New York for the year 1998 and the closing paragraph as amended by chapter 582 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
§ 3-401 Awards to spouses of killed firefighters, police officers [and], transit police officers, emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians. The mayor is authorized and empowered to make an award to the spouse or domestic partner of a member of the uniformed force of the police department, fire department, including emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians employed by the fire department, or uniformed transit police force, maintained by the New York city transit authority, killed while engaged in the discharge of duty. Such award shall equal the annual salary of such member at the time of death, but in no case less than the full salary payable to a first grade police officer, firefighter [or], transit police officer, emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician at the date of death of such employee.
In case there shall be no spouse or domestic partner surviving such member, the award shall be made to the minor child or children surviving such member. In case there shall be no spouse or domestic partner nor child nor children so surviving the award may be made to the dependent mother, father, or other dependents of such member. Such award shall be made in one payment as soon after the death of such member as may be
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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possible and shall be in addition to any pension, award or other allowances authorized by law.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and solely for the purposes of this section, a member otherwise covered by this section shall be deemed to have been killed while engaged in the discharge of duty upon which his or her membership is based, provided that such member was in active service upon which his or her membership is based at the time that such member was ordered to active duty pursuant to Title 10 of the United States Code, with the armed forces of the United States or to service in the uniformed services pursuant to Chapter 43 of Title 38 of the United States Code, and such member died while on such active duty or service in the uniformed services on or after June fourteenth, two thousand five while serving on such active military duty or in the uniformed services.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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