Senate Bill S5231

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to providing enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee


  • 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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2023-S5231 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-c, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5854
2021-2022: S970

2023-S5231 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the tax levy limit shall not include 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 the general municipal law.

2023-S5231 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5231 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5231
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  THOMAS, COMRIE -- 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.
                                                            LBD07499-01-3
              

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