Provides that where any condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter, where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examination on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability or death was caused by the natural and proximate result of an accident, not caused by such firefighter's own negligence; and was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8376
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 6, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BYNOE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation to
a presumption for Parkinson's disease; and providing for the repeal of
such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The volunteer firefighters' benefit law is amended by
2 adding a new section 11-d to read as follows:
3 § 11-d. Volunteer firefighters; presumption for Parkinson's disease.
4 Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general, special
5 or local law to the contrary, and for the purposes of this chapter, any
6 condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, result-
7 ing in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter,
8 where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examina-
9 tion on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination
10 failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive
11 evidence that such disability or death (a) was caused by the natural and
12 proximate result of an accident, not caused by such firefighter's own
13 negligence, and (b) was incurred in the performance and discharge of
14 duty, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
16 deemed repealed June 30, 2030.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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