Bill Text: NY A03044 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Provides that a fire company may elect to include call firefighters within its membership who shall receive a stipend for each call that he or she responds to.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - referred to local governments [A03044 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03044-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3044

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. STIRPE, STECK, EACHUS, BUTTENSCHON, SHIMSKY --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  call  fire-
          fighters

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 201-a to read as follows:
     3    §  201-a.  Call firefighters.  Any volunteer fire company of a county,
     4  city, town, village, fire district,  fire  protection  district  or  any
     5  other  entity  that  operates  a  volunteer  fire  company, may elect to
     6  include within its membership, call firefighters. Such call firefighters
     7  shall serve at the call of the fire company, and shall receive a stipend
     8  each time such call firefighter responds to a call by such fire company.
     9  The amount of such stipend shall be determined by the fire company,  but
    10  shall not exceed fifty dollars per call or five thousand dollars annual-
    11  ly  per call firefighter.  Call firefighters shall meet all criteria and
    12  requirements necessary to be a volunteer firefighter.    Candidates  for
    13  call  firefighters  shall apply to the fire company in a manner and form
    14  to be determined by such fire company. Call firefighters  shall  in  all
    15  respects  be  afforded the status and benefits of volunteer firefighters
    16  and shall be eligible to participate in  the  length  of  service  award
    17  program,  provided  however that call firefighters shall not be entitled
    18  to any pension or retirement benefits afforded to full-time professional
    19  firefighters.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03682-01-5