New York S 6554: Provides for benefits for certain emergency medical technicians in the city of New York who suffer any condition or impairment of health caused by a stroke resulting in disability or death

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S06554 Summary:

BILL NOS06554A

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SAME ASSAME AS A07591-A

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SPONSORJACKSON

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §207-qq, Gen Muni L

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Provides for benefits for certain emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians in the city of New York who suffer any condition or impairment of health caused by a stroke resulting in disability or death.

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BILL NOS06554A

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03/17/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

05/13/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

03/27/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

03/27/2026PRINT NUMBER 6554A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6554--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 17, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 -- recommitted to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions in
 accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to benefits for
 employees of governmental entities performing emergency medical
 services in the city of New York who suffer any condition or impair-
 ment of health caused by a stroke resulting in disability or death

 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-qq to read as follows:
 3 § 207-qq. Disabilities of emergency medical technicians or advanced
 4 emergency medical technicians in certain cities resulting from stroke.
 5 Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or
 6 administrative code to the contrary, but except for the purposes of the
 7 workers' compensation law and the labor law, any condition of impairment
 8 of health caused by a stroke resulting in total or partial disability or
 9 death to a paid employee of a fire department who performs the functions
 10 of an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical techni-
 11 cian in a city with a population of one million or more, where such
 12 employee is drawn from competitive civil service lists, who successfully
 13 passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such depart-
 14 ment, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition,
 15 shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance of
 16 duty, unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.
 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00094-03-6

 S. 6554--A 2

 SUMMARY: This proposed legislation would provide Emergency Medical
 Technicians (EMT) members of the New York City Employees' Retirement
 System (NYCERS) a rebuttable statutory presumption that a qualifying
 partial or total disability or death related to the occurrence of a
 stroke was incurred in the performance of duty.

 ILLUSTRATION - INCREASE (DECREASE) IN EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS
 by Fiscal Year for the first 25 years ($ in Thousands)

 One Incident One Incident Per Year
 Year Disability Death Disability Death
 2027 54 158 54 158
 2028 54 158 109 321
 2029 54 158 166 488
 2030 54 158 225 661
 2031 54 158 285 839
 2032 54 158 348 1,022
 2033 54 158 412 1,210
 2034 54 158 478 1,405
 2035 54 158 546 1,605
 2036 54 158 616 1,811
 2037 54 158 689 2,023
 2038 54 158 763 2,242
 2039 54 158 840 2,467
 2040 54 158 919 2,699
 2041 0 0 946 2,780
 2042 0 0 975 2,864
 2043 0 0 1,004 2,949
 2044 0 0 1,034 3,038
 2045 0 0 1,065 3,129
 2046 0 0 1,097 3,223
 2047 0 0 1,130 3,320
 2048 0 0 1,164 3,419
 2049 0 0 1,199 3,522
 2050 0 0 1,235 3,628
 2051 0 0 1,272 3,736
 Employer contribution impact beyond Fiscal Year 2051 is not shown.
 The potential increases in employer contributions will be allocated