STATE OF NEW YORK
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3033
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, WOERNER, THIELE, PHEFFER AMATO,
WALLACE, COOK, SANTABARBARA, SIMON, JOYNER, JEAN-PIERRE, LAVINE, HYND-
MAN, BARRETT, STECK, RAMOS, BUTTENSCHON, BRONSON, CRUZ, JACOBSON,
SAYEGH, HUNTER, LUPARDO, MORINELLO, DiPIETRO, McDONOUGH, RA, PALMESA-
NO, NORRIS, MIKULIN, MANKTELOW, HAWLEY, DeSTEFANO, BRABENEC -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, 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:
1 Section 1. Sections 4 and 5 of chapter 668 of the laws of 1977, amend-
2 ing the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, relating to disability due
3 to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries, section 4
4 as amended by section 1 of item CC of subpart B of part XXX of chapter
5 58 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows:
6 § 4. [The provisions of section two of this act shall remain in full
7 force and effect to and including the thirtieth day of June, 2025.
8 § 5.] This act shall take effect on the first day of July next
9 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law, or if signed
10 after the first day of July, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, shall take
11 effect immediately, and shall apply only in cases where the injury caus-
12 ing death or disability occurred on or after such date of taking effect.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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