Bill Text: NY A04729 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4729

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that where any condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter, where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examination on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability or death was caused by the natural and proximate result of an accident, not caused by such firefighter's own negligence; and was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - reported referred to ways and means [A04729 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4729

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation  to
          a presumption for Parkinson's disease; and providing for the repeal of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. The volunteer  firefighters'  benefit  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new section 11-d to read as follows:
     3    §  11-d.  Volunteer firefighters; presumption for Parkinson's disease.
     4  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general, special
     5  or local law to the contrary, and for the purposes of this chapter,  any
     6  condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, result-
     7  ing  in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter,
     8  where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examina-
     9  tion on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination
    10  failed to reveal any evidence of such condition,  shall  be  presumptive
    11  evidence that such disability or death (a) was caused by the natural and
    12  proximate  result  of  an accident, not caused by such firefighter's own
    13  negligence, and (b) was incurred in the  performance  and  discharge  of
    14  duty, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    16  deemed repealed June 30, 2030.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08847-01-5