Assembly Bill A7552

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the maximum contribution for certain service award programs

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S4207 - Signed by Governor

  • 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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2019-A7552 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4207
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§218 & 219-f, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7618
2015-2016: S2110
2017-2018: S9163

2019-A7552 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the maximum contribution for certain service award programs for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.

2019-A7552 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7552
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law, in relation to the maximum
   contribution for certain service award programs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  (b)  of section 218 of the general municipal
 law, as amended by chapter 452 of the laws of 2004, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   (b) The sponsor of a defined contribution plan shall contribute to the
 plan a fixed amount of money, as determined by the sponsor, on behalf of
 each participant who is credited with a year of service. The minimum and
 maximum  contribution  requirements  for  a defined contribution service
 award program shall be as follows. The minimum contribution shall be one
 hundred twenty dollars per year of  service.  The  maximum  contribution
 shall be [seven] TWELVE hundred dollars per year of service. The maximum
 number  of  years  of  service  for  which  a  participant may receive a
 contribution shall be forty years. The sponsor shall appropriate annual-
 ly an amount sufficient to pay the contributions.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 219-f of the general municipal  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  452  of  the  laws  of 2004, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. The sponsor of a service award  program  shall  contribute  to  the
 program a fixed amount of money, as determined by the sponsor, on behalf
 of  each  participant  who is credited with a year of ambulance service.
 The minimum contribution shall be one hundred twenty dollars per year of
 ambulance service. The maximum  contribution  shall  be  [seven]  TWELVE
 hundred dollars per year of ambulance service.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, any
 change or amendment to a service award program made by  this  act  shall
 only  take  effect as of the first of January next succeeding completion
 of the proceedings required for adoption of such change or amendment and
 shall only apply prospectively.

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