Bill Text: NY S07315 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to amendments to the granting of certain service awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-28 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8919 [S07315 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07315-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7315
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to service  award
          programs
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 8  of  section  219-d  of  the
     2  general  municipal  law,  as  amended  by  a chapter of the laws of 2017
     3  amending the general municipal law relating to service  award  programs,
     4  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 899 and A. 6873, is amended
     5  to read as follows:
     6    (b) The entitlement age, the number  of  years  of  ambulance  service
     7  required  to  obtain  a nonforfeitable right to a service award, and the
     8  activities for which points shall be granted toward a year of  ambulance
     9  service  may be changed by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of
    10  at least sixty percent of the governing board  of  the  sponsor  without
    11  referendum;  provided,  that, consistent with the provisions of subdivi-
    12  sion three of section two hundred [nineteen-m] nineteen-e of this [chap-
    13  ter] article, if the effect of the amendment is to increase  the  number
    14  of  points  granted  for  the  performance of the activity, decrease the
    15  amount of an activity required  to  earn  the  points  granted  for  the
    16  performance of the activity, or both, such amendment shall be subject to
    17  a  mandatory  referendum. Any amendment to a service award program shall
    18  only take effect as of the first of January next  succeeding  completion
    19  of the proceedings required for adoption of the amendment and shall only
    20  apply prospectively.
    21    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    22  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the  general  municipal
    23  law  relating to service award programs as proposed in legislative bills
    24  numbers S. 899 and A. 6873, takes effect.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00977-02-8