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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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Assembly Bill A1277
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
REILLY
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Michelle Schimel
Mark J.F. Schroeder
George Latimer
Sandy Galef
multi-Sponsors
David Townsend
2009-A1277 (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-A1277 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1277 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, the village law and the general municipal law, in relation to criminal background checks for fire- fighters and emergency medical services personnel THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 837-o of the executive law, as added by chapter 423 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows: Search for arson AND SEX OFFENSE conviction records of volunteer fire- fighter applicants. 1. Any person who applies for membership in a fire company, as such term is defined in section three of the volunteer fire- fighters' benefit law, or who seeks to transfer as a member to another fire company, shall be required to authorize the submission of his or her name and other authorized identifying information to the division which shall search its files for records indicating whether the person stands convicted of the crime of arson OR OF ANY SEX OFFENSE OR ATTEMPTED SEX OFFENSE AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW. The chief of the fire company to which application is made shall provide written notice to the applicant that a search will be conducted, and if the applicant desires to proceed, he or she shall complete a search request on the form provided for this purpose by the division of criminal justice services. S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 837-o of the executive law, as added by chapter 423 of the laws of 1999, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 689 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 3. (a) All searches concerning the application for membership in a fire company shall be conducted under the provisions of subdivision six of section eight hundred thirty-seven of this article without the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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