New York S 5475: Relates to providing enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters

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S05475 Summary:

BILL NOS05475 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06572

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Amd §3-c, Gen Muni L

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Provides that the tax levy limit shall not include a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from a local government meeting its obligation to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters as required under section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law.

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BILL NOS05475 

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02/21/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5475

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 21, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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, in relation to providing
 enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of
 2 section 3-c of the general municipal law, as added by section 1 of part
 3 A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subparagraph
 4 (v) is added to read as follows:
 5 (iv) in years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
 6 state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
 7 sion two of section five hundred seventeen of the education law,
 8 increases by more than two percentage points from the previous year, a
 9 tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year for local
 10 government employer contributions to the New York state teachers'
 11 retirement system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus
 12 two percentage points[.];
 13 (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from a local
 14 government meeting its obligation to provide enhanced cancer disability
 15 benefits to volunteer firefighters as required under section two hundred
 16 five-cc of this chapter.
 17 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 3-c of the general municipal law, as
 18 added by section 1 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is
 19 amended to read as follows:
 20 5. A local government may adopt a budget that requires a tax levy that
 21 is greater than the tax levy limit for the coming fiscal year, not
 22 including any levy necessary to support the expenditures pursuant to
 23 subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v) of paragraph g of subdivision two
 24 of this section, only if the governing body of such local government
 25 first enacts, by a vote of sixty percent of the total voting power of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09746-01-5

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 1 such body, a local law to override such limit for such coming fiscal
 2 year only, or in the case of a district or fire district, a resolution,
 3 approved by a vote of sixty percent of the total voting power of such
 4 body, to override such limit for such coming fiscal year only.
 5 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 6 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
 7 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
 8 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
 9 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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