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                                   3432
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the establish-
   ment of special districts for general ambulance services; and to amend
   the executive law, in relation to a report  on  volunteer  firefighter
   and ambulance services staffing

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of  subdivision  1  of  section
 122-b of the general municipal law, paragraphs (d) and (f) as amended by
 chapter  303 of the laws of 1980 and paragraph (e) as amended by section
 2 of part KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, are amended  and  a  new
 closing paragraph is added to read as follows:
   (d)  ESTABLISH  A  SPECIAL DISTRICT FOR THE FINANCING AND OPERATION OF
 GENERAL AMBULANCE SERVICES AS SET FORTH BY  THIS  SECTION,  WHEREBY  ANY
 COUNTY,  CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE, ACTING INDIVIDUALLY, OR JOINTLY WITH ANY
 OTHER COUNTY, CITY, TOWN AND/OR VILLAGE, THROUGH ITS GOVERNING  BODY  OR
 BODIES,  FOLLOWING  APPLICABLE PROCEDURES AS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE ESTAB-
 LISHMENT OF FIRE DISTRICTS IN ARTICLE ELEVEN OF THE TOWN LAW OR  FOLLOW-
 ING APPLICABLE PROCEDURES AS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF JOINT
 FIRE  DISTRICTS  IN  ARTICLE ELEVEN-A OF THE TOWN LAW, WITH SUCH SPECIAL
 DISTRICT BEING AUTHORIZED BY THIS SECTION TO BE ESTABLISHED  IN  ALL  OR
 ANY  PART  OF  ANY SUCH PARTICIPATING COUNTY OR COUNTIES, TOWN OR TOWNS,
 CITY OR CITIES AND/OR VILLAGE OR VILLAGES;
   (E) Employ any combination of the methods authorized in paragraph (a),
 (b) [or], (c) OR (D);
   [(e)] (F) A contract may be entered into pursuant to the provisions of
 this section for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid squad
 of a fire department or fire company which is subject to the  provisions
 of section two hundred nine-b of this chapter;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   [(f)]  (G)  Consider  prehospital  emergency  treatment  as  that care
 provided  by  certified  emergency  medical  technicians  or   certified
 advanced   emergency  medical  technicians  certified  pursuant  to  the
 provisions of article thirty of the public health law.
   ANY COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE WHICH ESTABLISHES OR PARTICIPATES IN
 A  JOINT  DISTRICT  PURSUANT  TO PARAGRAPH (D) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL
 DISSOLVE AND ABOLISH ANY PREEXISTING LOCAL  DISTRICT  SERVING  THE  SAME
 JURISDICTION.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the general
 municipal law, as amended by chapter 303 of the laws of 1980, is amended
 to read as follows:
   [(e)] (F) No contract shall be entered into pursuant to the provisions
 of this section for the services of an emergency rescue  and  first  aid
 squad  of  a  fire  department  or  fire company which is subject to the
 provisions of section two hundred nine-b of [the general municipal  law]
 THIS CHAPTER;
   §  3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 720 to read
 as follows:
   § 720. REPORT ON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AND AMBULANCE  SERVICES  STAFF-
 ING. 1. ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN,
 THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  STATE  OFFICE  OF  FIRE
 PREVENTION AND CONTROL, SHALL PREPARE AND PUBLISH A REPORT ON THE STAFF-
 ING OF VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AND AMBULANCE SERVICES IN NEW  YORK  STATE.
 SUCH  REPORT  SHALL  EXAMINE  AND  EVALUATE  THE  CHALLENGES  AND ISSUES
 CONCERNING THE RECRUITING AND MAINTENANCE OF TRAINED, AVAILABLE STAFFING
 BY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS, DISTRICTS AND COMPANIES AS  WELL  AS  FOR
 VOLUNTEER  AMBULANCE  DISTRICTS AND COMPANIES. SUCH REPORT SHALL SPECIF-
 ICALLY EXAMINE AND EVALUATE THE CHALLENGES AND ISSUES THAT  ARE  PARTIC-
 ULAR  TO  RURAL  AREAS OF THE STATE AND AREAS WITH GEOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES
 SUCH AS MOUNTAINS, WATERWAYS OR LIMITED TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS.
   2. IN ADDITION TO IDENTIFYING CHALLENGES  AND  ISSUES  CONCERNING  THE
 RECRUITING  AND  MAINTENANCE OF TRAINED, AVAILABLE STAFFING BY VOLUNTEER
 FIRE DEPARTMENTS, DISTRICTS AND COMPANIES AS WELL AS FOR VOLUNTEER AMBU-
 LANCE DISTRICTS AND COMPANIES ACROSS NEW  YORK  STATE,  AS  REQUIRED  BY
 SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, SUCH REPORT SHALL ALSO MAKE RECOMMENDA-
 TIONS  ON HOW TO ADDRESS AND REMEDIATE THE CHALLENGES AND ISSUES IDENTI-
 FIED, WITH SUCH RECOMMENDATIONS BEING SUBMITTED  TO  THE  GOVERNOR,  THE
 TEMPORARY  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  SENATE,  THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE
 CHAIR OF THE SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE CHAIR
 OF THE ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AT  THE  TIME  OF
 THE PUBLISHING OF THE REPORT.
   §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the
 general municipal law made by section one of this act shall  be  subject
 to  the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 4
 of part KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, when upon  such  date  the
 provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.