New York A 8356: Relates to expedited teaching licensing by certain military spouses

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A08356 Summary:

BILL NOA08356 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07748

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §207-r, Gen Muni L

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Provides for a line of duty disability presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the lung, resulting in total or partial disability or death of certain deputy sheriff members of a retirement system in certain cities.

Go to top A08356 Actions:

BILL NOA08356 

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05/13/2025referred to governmental employees

06/13/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/16/2025reported referred to rules

06/16/2025reported 

06/16/2025rules report cal.828

06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.828

06/16/2025substituted by s7748

&nbspS07748 AMEND= JACKSON

&nbsp05/05/2025REFERRED TO CITIES 1

&nbsp05/20/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

&nbsp06/12/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

&nbsp06/12/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2005

&nbsp06/13/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/13/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/13/2025referred to governmental employees

&nbsp06/16/2025substituted for a8356

&nbsp06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.828

&nbsp06/16/2025home rule request

&nbsp06/16/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/16/2025returned to senate

&nbsp12/08/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp12/19/2025VETOED MEMO.154

Go to topA08356 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/16/2025AYE/NAY:32/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyeRaAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

BenedettoAyePalmesanoAye

WeprinAyeWalshAye

RamosAbsentDeStefanoAye

BraunsteinAyeManktelowAye

McDonaldAyeSmullenAye

RozicExcusedGiglioAye

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAye

BronsonAye

DilanAye

SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

EpsteinAye

SeptimoAbsent

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/16/2025AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeRaAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

MagnarelliAyeReillyAye

PaulinAyeSmithAye

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicExcused

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA08356 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA08356 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8356

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 13, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to disabilities
 of deputy sheriff members of a retirement system in certain cities

 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 207-r to read as follows:
 3 § 207-r. Disabilities of deputy sheriff members of a retirement system
 4 in certain cities. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,
 5 special or local law or administrative code to the contrary, but except
 6 for the purposes of the workers' compensation law and the labor law, any
 7 condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the lung,
 8 resulting in total or partial disability or death to a paid employee
 9 performing the duties of a deputy sheriff in the sheriff's department of
 10 a city with a population of one million or more where such employee is
 11 drawn from competitive civil service lists, or any retired member of
 12 such department who retired from a title whose duties are those of a
 13 deputy sheriff and has been retired for five or less years, who success-
 14 fully passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such
 15 department, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such
 16 condition, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the
 17 performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proved by
 18 competent evidence.
 19 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a deputy sheriff member
 20 retiring