Permits the village board of the village of Southampton to provide health insurance coverage for enrolled members of the Southampton Village Ocean Rescue as is currently authorized for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5742
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 15, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT permitting the village board of the village of Southampton to
provide health insurance coverage for enrolled members of the South-
ampton Village Ocean Rescue
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, where
2 the village board of the village of Southampton has designated the
3 Southampton Village Ocean Rescue as an emergency rescue and first aid
4 squad by resolution of the village board, under section 209-b of the
5 general municipal law or by special act of the legislature, the village
6 board shall be permitted to provide health insurance coverage for the
7 enrolled members of such squad and their families, pursuant to subdivi-
8 sion 7 of section 92-a of the general municipal law, under the same
9 terms and conditions as are authorized for volunteer firefighters and
10 volunteer ambulance workers, including that the total cost of partic-
11 ipation by such volunteers and their families shall be borne by the
12 volunteers.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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