A08842 Summary:

BILL NOA08842A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S09307-A
 
SPONSORShimsky
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§1, 2 & 8, Chap 624 of 1940
 
Relates to the name and purpose of the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Valhalla, New York; provides that any firefighter who has been removed for cause, expelled or dropped from the rolls of such fire department and who has not been reinstated, shall not be eligible in such corporation; relates to the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by such association.
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A08842 Actions:

BILL NOA08842A
 
01/18/2024referred to local governments
05/10/2024amend and recommit to local governments
05/10/2024print number 8842a
05/14/2024reported referred to ways and means
05/20/2024reported referred to rules
06/03/2024reported
06/03/2024rules report cal.330
06/03/2024ordered to third reading rules cal.330
06/03/2024passed assembly
06/03/2024delivered to senate
06/03/2024REFERRED TO RULES
06/06/2024SUBSTITUTED FOR S9307A
06/06/20243RD READING CAL.1897
06/06/2024PASSED SENATE
06/06/2024RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
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A08842 Committee Votes:

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Chair:Thiele DATE:05/14/2024AYE/NAY:20/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means
ThieleAyeBrownAye
RamosAyeFriendAye
OtisAyeManktelowAye
WoernerAyeGallahanAye
JacobsonAyeSimpsonAye
DarlingAyeBeephanAye
ClarkAye
ConradAye
RiveraAye
LunsfordAye
LevenbergAye
ShimskyAye
ShresthaAye
EachusAye

WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Weinstein DATE:05/20/2024AYE/NAY:34/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules
WeinsteinAyeRaAye
GlickAyeFitzpatrickExcused
PretlowAyeHawleyAye
ColtonAyeBlankenbushAye
CookAyeNorrisAye
AubryAyeBrabenecAye
BenedettoAyePalmesanoAye
WeprinAyeWalshAye
RamosAyeDeStefanoAye
BraunsteinAyeManktelowAye
McDonaldAyeSmullenAye
RozicAye
DinowitzAye
MagnarelliAye
ZebrowskiAye
BronsonAye
DilanAye
SeawrightAye
HyndmanAye
WalkerAye
Bichotte HermelAye
SimonAye
CruzAye
FahyAye

RULES Chair:Pretlow DATE:06/03/2024AYE/NAY:28/0 Action: Favorable
HeastieExcusedBarclayAye
WeinsteinAyeHawleyAye
PretlowAyeGiglioAye
CookAyeBlankenbushAye
GlickAyeNorrisAye
AubryAyeRaAye
DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye
ColtonAyePalmesanoExcused
MagnarelliAyeReillyAye
PaulinAye
Peoples-StokesAye
BenedettoAye
LavineAye
LupardoAye
ZebrowskiAye
ThieleAye
BraunsteinAye
DickensExcused
DavilaAye
HyndmanAye
RozicAye
BronsonAye

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A08842 Floor Votes:

DATE:06/03/2024Assembly Vote  YEA/NAY: 143/2
Yes
Alvarez
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fall
Yes
Kelles
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simpson
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kim
ER
Palmesano
Yes
Slater
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Chandler-Waterm
Yes
Flood
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ardila
Yes
Chang
Yes
Forrest
Yes
Lee
No
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Clark
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lemondes
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Colton
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Levenberg
Yes
Pirozzolo
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Gallahan
Yes ‡
Lucas
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Stern
Yes
Beephan
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
No ‡
Stirpe
Yes
Bendett
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Raga
Yes
Tague
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tannousis
Yes
Berger
Yes
Curran
Yes
Giglio JM
ER
Maher
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tapia
Yes
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Dais
Yes
Glick
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
Darling
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Thiele
ER
Blumencranz
Yes
Davila
Yes
Goodell
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Bores
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gray
Yes ‡
McDonough
Yes
Rosenthal
Yes
Walker
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McGowan
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Braunstein
ER
Dickens
Yes
Hawley
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Brook-Krasny
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brown EA
Yes ‡
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Miller
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Williams
Yes
Brown K
Yes
Durso
ER
Jackson
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Shimsky
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Burdick
Yes
Eachus
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Shrestha
Yes
Zaccaro
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Norris
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Burke
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Novakhov
Yes
Simon
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jones
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Simone
Yes
Mr. Speaker

‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
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A08842 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8842--A
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 18, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on  Local  Governments  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend chapter 624 of the laws of 1940 incorporating the volun-
          teer  and  exempt  firemen's  benevolent  association of Valhalla, New
          York, and providing for its powers and duties, in relation to the name
          and purpose of such association and the use of foreign fire  insurance
          premium taxes
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 1 of chapter 624 of  the
     2  laws of 1940 incorporating the volunteer and exempt firemen's benevolent
     3  association  of  Valhalla,  New  York,  and providing for its powers and
     4  duties, are amended to read as follows:
     5    1. A membership corporation by  the  name  of  "Volunteer  and  Exempt
     6  [Firemen's] Firefighters' Benevolent Association of Valhalla, New York,"
     7  is hereby created.
     8    2.  All  persons  who now are, or have been, or who hereafter shall be
     9  active volunteer members of the Valhalla fire  department  or  any  fire
    10  engine,  hook and ladder, patrol, emergency rescue squad or hose company
    11  in the Valhalla fire district or any fire district outside  but  contig-
    12  uous  to  such  fire  district  which  contracts  with the Valhalla fire
    13  department for fire protection pursuant to the town law, and all persons
    14  in any such fire district who [are entitled to the general exemptions of
    15  firemen therein as provided in section  two  hundred-a  of  the  general
    16  municipal  law and two hundred nine of the village law, and acts amenda-
    17  tory thereof or supplemental thereto, or of any other  applicable  law,]
    18  have heretofore acquired or shall hereafter acquire the status of exempt
    19  volunteer  firefighters as defined in section two hundred of the general
    20  municipal law or any other applicable law by virtue of  having  rendered
    21  service  in  the  Valhalla fire district shall be eligible to membership
    22  [therein.] in the corporation created by this act; except that any fire-
    23  fighter who has been removed for cause, expelled  or  dropped  from  the
    24  rolls  of  the Valhalla Fire Department, and who has not been reinstated
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13791-06-4

        A. 8842--A                          2
 
     1  therein, shall not be eligible for membership in such  corporation.  The
     2  membership  of  any  person in such corporation shall terminate upon the
     3  withdrawal of such person as an active volunteer member of the  Valhalla
     4  Fire  Department  prior to the actual performance by such person of five
     5  years' service as an  active  volunteer  member  of  the  Valhalla  Fire
     6  Department.  Paid firefighters, if any, in the Valhalla Fire Department,
     7  shall not be eligible for membership in the corporation.
     8    3. Nothing contained herein or in the village law or  any  other  such
     9  applicable law shall preclude a person from membership in such Volunteer
    10  and Exempt [Firemen's] Firefighters' Benevolent Association of Valhalla,
    11  New  York,  who  resides in a fire district outside of but contiguous to
    12  the  Valhalla  fire  district,  when  the  fire  commissioners  of  such
    13  districts  have  contracted  with the board of fire commissioners of the
    14  Valhalla fire district for fire protection under  and  pursuant  to  the
    15  provisions of law in such case made and provided.
    16    § 2. Sections 2 and 8 of chapter 624 of the laws of 1940 incorporating
    17  the  volunteer  and exempt firemen's benevolent association of Valhalla,
    18  New York, and providing for its powers and duties, are amended  to  read
    19  as follows:
    20    §  2.  Purposes and duty of the association. The purposes and duty [of
    21  the association is to provide relief to indigent  and  disabled  firemen
    22  and  their families] of the corporation created by this act shall be: to
    23  provide relief, aid and assistance to  the  volunteer  members  of  such
    24  corporation  who  are indigent or disabled or injured in the performance
    25  of their duties, and  their  families;  to  promote  and  safeguard  the
    26  welfare  of  the  volunteer members of such corporation, and their fami-
    27  lies; to maintain a suitable headquarters for the members of such corpo-
    28  ration; to provide for the health and safety of the volunteer members of
    29  such corporation; and to enhance the morale of the volunteer members  of
    30  such  corporation by providing for the social and recreational wellbeing
    31  of the volunteer members of the corporation, and the  promotion  of  the
    32  volunteer  fire  service  within the territory protected by the Valhalla
    33  fire department.
    34    § 8. Precept for payment of foreign fire insurance [companies] premium
    35  taxes.  Such corporation shall collect and there shall be paid to it all
    36  tax imposed by section [one hundred thirty-three] 9104 of the  insurance
    37  law  upon  premiums  on policies of insurance covering property situated
    38  within the Valhalla Fire District of the Town of Mount  Pleasant,  West-
    39  chester  county,  New  York,  or  within any duly organized territory in
    40  which the fire department of said district is obligated to  render  fire
    41  protection,  except that said corporation shall remit such percentage of
    42  all taxes so collected or paid to it, to the treasurer of the [firemen's
    43  association] Firefighters' Association of the [state] State of New York,
    44  as may be required by the insurance law. The officer of said corporation
    45  designated by its by-laws to collect and receive the aforesaid tax shall
    46  have all the powers and be subject to all the provisions of section [one
    47  hundred thirty-three] 9104 of the insurance law, relating to  treasurers
    48  of  fire departments. Such corporation shall also be entitled to receive
    49  a share of the tax imposed by section [one-hundred forty-nine-a] 9105 of
    50  the insurance law, based upon the business written in the territory with
    51  respect to which it is entitled to collect and  receive  the  tax  under
    52  section  [one  hundred  thirty-three]  9104  of  the insurance law. Such
    53  corporation shall also be entitled to  receive  and  collect  all  taxes
    54  heretofore  due and owing and unpaid at the time of the creation of this
    55  corporation. Such taxes shall be used only [for the care and  relief  of
    56  disabled or indigent volunteer and exempt firemen and their families] by

        A. 8842--A                          3
 
     1  the  corporation  in furtherance of its purposes as set forth in section
     2  two of this act.
     3    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that
     4  the amendments to section 8 of chapter 624 of the laws of 1940  made  by
     5  section two of this act shall apply to taxes due on premiums received on
     6  and after January 1, 2025.
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