New York S 5432: Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers

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S05432 Summary:

BILL NOS05432 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06410

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSRADDABBO, ASHBY, BAILEY, BORRELLO, FERNANDEZ, GALLIVAN, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, JACKSON, MATTERA, MAYER,
 MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RHOADS, ROLISON, RYAN C, STEC, TEDISCO, WEBB, WEBER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§8, 9, 10 & 11, Vol Ffs Ben L; amd §§8, 9, 10 & 11, Vol Amb Wkr Ben L

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Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.

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BILL NOS05432 

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02/21/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

04/29/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

03/10/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5432

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BAILEY, BORRELLO, FERNAN-
 DEZ, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, MAYER, MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RHOADS, ROLI-
 SON, STEC, TEDISCO, WEBB, WEBER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

 AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and the volun-
 teer ambulance workers' benefit law, in relation to increasing the
 amount of certain benefits

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

 1 Section 1. Section 8 of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, as
 2 amended by chapter 401 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 § 8. Permanent total disability benefits. In the case of total disa-
 5 bility adjudged to be permanent the volunteer firefighter shall be paid
 6 [six] twelve hundred dollars for each week during the continuance there-
 7 of. Permanent total disability, within the meaning of this section,
 8 shall exist only if the earning capacity of the volunteer firefighter
 9 has been lost permanently and totally as the result of the injury. The
 10 loss of both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both legs, or both
 11 eyes, or any two thereof, shall, in the absence of conclusive proof to
 12 the contrary, constitute permanent total disability, but in all other
 13 cases permanent total disability shall be determined in accordance with
 14 the facts. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, an
 15 injured volunteer firefighter disabled due to the loss or total loss of
 16 use of both eyes, or both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both
 17 legs, or any two thereof shall not suffer any diminution of such weekly
 18 benefit by engaging in business or employment provided [his or her] such
 19 volunteer firefighter's weekly earnings or wages, when combined with
 20 [his or her] such volunteer firefighter's weekly benefit shall not be in
 21 excess of [eight] sixteen hundred dollars; and further provided that the
 22 application of this section shall not result in reduction of benefits

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00671-01-5

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 1 which an injured volunteer firefighter who is disabled due to the loss
 2 or total loss of use of both eyes, or both hands, or both arms, or both
 3 feet, or both legs, or any two thereof would otherwise be entitled to
 4 under any other provisions of this article.
 5 § 2. Section 9 of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, as amended
 6 by chapter 523 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 7 § 9. Temporary total disability benefits. In the case of temporary
 8 total disability the volunteer firefighter shall be paid one hundred
 9 twenty-five dollars for each week during the continuance thereof;
 10 provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured in the
 11 line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight to
 12 December thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, said firefighter
 13 shall receive one hundred eighty dollars per week during the continuance
 14 thereof; and further provided, that when the volunteer firefighter is
 15 injured in the line of duty on or after January