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                                   5854
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2019
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 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  providing
   enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph  (g)  of  subdivision  2  of
 section  3-c of the general municipal law, as added by section 1 of part
 A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a  new  subparagraph
 (v) is added to read as follows:
   (iv)  in  years  in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
 state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
 sion two of  section  five  hundred  seventeen  of  the  education  law,
 increases  by  more than two percentage points from the previous year, a
 tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year for local
 government employer  contributions  to  the  New  York  state  teachers'
 retirement system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus
 two percentage points[.];
   (V)  A  TAX  LEVY  NECESSARY  FOR  EXPENDITURES RESULTING FROM A LOCAL
 GOVERNMENT MEETING ITS OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE ENHANCED CANCER  DISABILITY
 BENEFITS TO VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS AS REQUIRED UNDER SECTION TWO HUNDRED
 FIVE-CC OF THIS CHAPTER.
   §  2.  Subdivision  5  of section 3-c of the general municipal law, as
 added by section 1 of part A of chapter 97  of  the  laws  of  2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   5. A local government may adopt a budget that requires a tax levy that
 is  greater  than  the  tax  levy  limit for the coming fiscal year, not
 including any levy necessary to support  the  expenditures  pursuant  to
 subparagraphs  (i)  through [(iv)] (V) of paragraph g of subdivision two
 of this section, only if the governing body  of  such  local  government
 first  enacts,  by  a vote of sixty percent of the total voting power of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 such body, a local law to override such limit  for  such  coming  fiscal
 year  only, or in the case of a district or fire district, a resolution,
 approved by a vote of sixty percent of the total voting  power  of  such
 body, to override such limit for such coming fiscal year only.
   §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become  a  law;  provided,  however,
 that the amendments to subdivisions 2 and 5 of section 3-c of the gener-
 al municipal law made by sections one and two of this act, respectively,
 shall  not  affect  the repeal of such section and shall be deemed to be
 repealed  therewith.  Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.