New York S 10597: Provides pay per call and paid on call stipends for volunteer firefighters and travel expense reimbursement for call response

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S10597 Summary:

BILL NOS10597 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10630-A

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SPONSORMARTINEZ

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COSPNSRGALLIVAN, WEBER

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §§200-aaa & 210-a, amd §§205-g, 209-d & 72-g, Gen Muni L; amd §3, Vol Ffs Ben L; amd §§517 & 651, Lab L;
amd §§41 & 201, Civ Serv L; amd §612, Tax L; amd §176, Town L

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Allows an authority having jurisdiction over a volunteer fire department or fire company in a county, city, town, village, fire district, or fire protection district to provide volunteer firefighters with a stipend of a nominal fee for responses to calls and for certain standby services; includes volunteer firefighters within the labor law definition of "employee" of a federal, state or municipal government of political subdivision thereof; establishes the volunteer fire service nominal compensation assistance fund.

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BILL NOS10597 

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05/28/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10597

 IN SENATE

 May 28, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, the volunteer firefighters'
 benefit law and the town law, in relation to providing pay per call
 and paid on call stipends for volunteer firefighters and travel
 expense reimbursement for call response; to amend the labor law, in
 relation to the definitions of "employee" and remuneration; to amend
 the civil service law, in relation to providing volunteer firefighters
 in the exempt class; to amend the tax law, in relation to including
 nominal fees paid to volunteer firefighters within the New York
 adjusted gross income of a resident individual; and to amend the
 general municipal law, in relation to establishing the volunteer fire
 service nominal compensation assistance fund

 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 200-aaa to read as follows:
 3 § 200-aaa. Pay per call and paid on call nominal compensation
 4 (stipends) for volunteer firefighters. 1. For purposes of this section:
 5 (a) "fire department" and "fire company" shall have the meanings as
 6 defined in section three of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law;
 7 (b) "nominal fee" means payment to a volunteer firefighter of a
 8 stipend, fee, gift card or gift certificate, gratuity, or other qualify-
 9 ing item of monetary value;
 10 (c) "pay per call compensation (stipend)" means payment of a nominal
 11 fee to a volunteer firefighter of a stipend for response to an emergency
 12 call of their fire department or fire company as defined in the local
 13 rules and regulations established for the program;
 14 (d) "paid on call compensation (stipend)" means a payment of a nominal
 15 fee to a volunteer firefighter for participating in a standby activity
 16 as defined in the local rules and regulations established for the
 17 program;
 18 (e) "volunteer firefighter" shall have the same meaning as defined in
 19 section three of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law. An active

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15208-05-6

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 1 volunteer firefighter may participate in a pay per call and paid on call
 2 stipend program adopted under this statute and such participation shall
 3 not cause that volunteer firefighter or call firefighter to be consid-
 4 ered a paid firefighter as that term is used in section one hundred
 5 seventy-six of the town law or any other statute;
 6 (f) "call firefighter" means a volunteer firefighter participating in
 7 a pay per call and paid on call compensation (stipend) program. Such
 8 participation shall not change such firefighter's volunteer status; and
 9 (g) "authority having jurisdiction" means the governing body of a
 10 city, town, village, or fire district which maintains a volunteer fire
 11 departme