New York A 2464: Relates to providing volunteer emergency medical technicians enhanced cancer disability benefits

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A02464 Summary:

BILL NOA02464 

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Add §205-ccc, Gen Muni L

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Provides certified volunteer emergency medical technicians enhanced cancer disability benefits and death benefits for certain cancers.

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BILL NOA02464 

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01/17/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2464

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 17, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to providing
 volunteer emergency medical technician enhanced cancer disability
 benefits

 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 205-ccc to read as follows:
 3 § 205-ccc. Volunteer emergency medical technician enhanced cancer
 4 disability benefits. A legally organized ambulance district, department
 5 or company shall provide and maintain for each eligible volunteer emer-
 6 gency medical technician, an enhanced cancer disability benefit insur-
 7 ance program.
 8 1. As used in this section:
 9 a. "Eligible volunteer emergency medical technician" means:
 10 (i) A volunteer emergency medical technician having five or more years
 11 of faithful and actual service in emergency medical treatment who
 12 successfully passed a physical examination on entry to service, which
 13 examination failed to reveal any evidence of cancers as defined in para-
 14 graph b of this subdivision; and
 15 (ii) Having submitted proof of five years of service by providing
 16 verification that such volunteer has met minimum standards for certif-
 17 ication as an emergency medical technician under section three thousand
 18 two of the public health law.
 19 b. "Cancer" means:
 20 (i) A disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in
 21 a part of the body or a malignant growth or tumor resulting from the
 22 division of abnormal cells; and
 23 (ii) Affecting the prostate or breast, lymphatic, hematological,
 24 digestive, urinary, neurological, or reproductive systems, or melanoma.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01467-01-5

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 1 2. An eligible volunteer emergency medical technician shall be enti-
 2 tled to payment of enhanced cancer benefits as follows:
 3 a. A lump sum benefit of twenty-five thousand dollars for each diagno-
 4 sis payable to such emergency medical technician upon acceptable proof
 5 to the insurance carrier or other payor of a diagnosis by a board certi-
 6 fied physician in the medical specialty appropriate for the type of
 7 cancer diagnosed that there are one or more malignant tumors character-
 8 ized by the uncontrollable and abnormal growth and spread of malignant
 9 cells with invasion of normal tissue and that either:
 10 (i) There is metastasis; and
 11 (1) surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy is medically necessary; or
 12 (2) there is a tumor of the prostate, provided that it is treated with
 13 radical prostatectomy or external beam therapy; or
 14 (ii) The emergency medical technician has terminal cancer, their life
 15 expectancy is twenty-four months or less from the date of diagnosis, and
 16 will not benefit from, or has exhausted, curative therapy.
 17 b. A lump sum benefit of six thousand two hundred fifty dollars for
 18 each diagnosis payable to such emergency medical technician upon accept-
 19 able proof to the insurance carrier or other payor of a diagnosis by a
 20 board certified physician in the medical specialty appropriate for the
 21 type of cancer involved that either:
 22 (i) There is carcinoma in situ such that surgery, radiotherapy, or
 23 chemotherapy has been determined to be medically necessary;
 24 (ii) There are malignant tumors which are treated by endoscopic proce-
 25 dures alone; or
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