Relates to requiring coverage for volunteer firefighters for full cancer screenings upon entry of service to a fire department or fire company and annually thereafter; provides that the costs of such screenings shall be covered by the state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8466--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 29, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, SAYEGH, GUNTHER, SEAWRIGHT, SANTA-
BARBARA, BURDICK, EACHUS, SILLITTI, SHIMSKY, BLUMENCRANZ, FLOOD --
read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Local Governments in accordance with Assem-
bly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation to
coverage for cancer screenings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 5 of the volunteer firefighters'
2 benefit law is amended by adding a new paragraph q to read as follows:
3 q. While, within the state, undergoing a full cancer screening, as
4 determined by the commissioner of health, upon entry of service to a
5 fire department or fire company and annually thereafter. The costs of
6 such full cancer screenings shall be borne entirely by the state.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13444-06-4
