Bill Text: NY S06757 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6757 (Prior Session Legislation)

Amended

Bill Title: Excludes fund raising from consideration in appropriating state aid and reimbursement for services to volunteer ambulance companies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-03 - PRINT NUMBER 6757A [S06757 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S06757-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6757--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 3, 2010
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       Introduced by Sen. AUBERTINE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on Health -- committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  excluding  money
         raised  by  fundraising  for volunteer emergency medical services when
         allocating state funding
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
    2  3005-c to read as follows:
    3    S  3005-C.  FUNDRAISING  BY  VOLUNTEER  AMBULANCE  COMPANIES.  1.  FOR
    4  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION  A  "FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY" MEANS A METHOD OF
    5  RAISING FUNDS TO EFFECTUATE THE LAWFUL PURPOSES OF A VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE
    6  COMPANY, BUT SHALL NOT  INCLUDE  ANY  METHOD  PROHIBITED  BY  THE  STATE
    7  CONSTITUTION  OR  THE  PENAL STATUTES OF THIS STATE, OR THE CONDUCT OF A
    8  BUSINESS OR OTHER COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE EXCEPT ON TEMPORARY BASIS FOR  A
    9  PERIOD  OR  PERIODS NOT TO EXCEED A TOTAL OF NINETY DAYS IN ANY CALENDAR
   10  YEAR.
   11    2. MONIES GENERATED FROM FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES SHALL NOT  BE  CONSID-
   12  ERED WHEN DETERMINING STATE AID OR REIMBURSEMENT FOR SERVICES TO PARTIC-
   13  IPATING  VOLUNTEER  AMBULANCE  COMPANIES,  INCLUDING  REGIONAL EMERGENCY
   14  MEDICAL COUNCILS.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15099-03-0