Assembly Bill A6784

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A6784 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit
Laws Affected:
Amd §§4 & 5, Chap 668 of 1977
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A563
2021-2022: A7336
2023-2024: A3033

2017-A6784 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.

2017-A6784 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   6784
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BUCHWALD, WOERNER, LUPINACCI, MORINELLO, THIELE,
   PHEFFER AMATO, DiPIETRO, WALLACE, BUTLER, COOK, SANTABARBARA,  JAFFEE,
   ORTIZ,  SIMON,  ENGLEBRIGHT, D'URSO, GOTTFRIED, HARRIS, BYRNE, KEARNS,
   WALTER, McDONOUGH, RA, TITONE, CROUCH, PALMESANO, JOYNER, JEAN-PIERRE,
   BLAKE, LAVINE, RAIA, HYNDMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  BLANK-
   ENBUSH,  DE LA ROSA,  McLAUGHLIN, M. L. MILLER, WALSH -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 668 of the laws of 1977, amending the  volunteer
   firefighters'  benefit  law,  relating to disability due to disease or
   malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries, in relation  to  making
   such provisions permanent
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Sections 4 and 5 of chapter 668 of the laws of 1977, amend-
 ing the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, relating to disability  due
 to  disease  or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries, section 4
 as amended by chapter 26 of the laws of 2015, are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  4.  [The provisions of section two of this act shall remain in full
 force and effect to and including the thirtieth day of June, 2020.
   § 5.] This act shall take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  July  next
 succeeding  the  date  on which it shall have become a law, or if signed
 after the first day of July, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, shall  take
 effect immediately, and shall apply only in cases where the injury caus-
 ing death or disability occurred on or after such date of taking effect.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09844-01-7

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