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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1627--A
                                                                 Cal. No. 76
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 12, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, BRINDISI, BUCHWALD, SKOUFIS, GUNTHER,
          SCHIMEL,  WOERNER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McLAUGHLIN -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments -- advanced to
          a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on
          the order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and  the  volun-
          teer  ambulance  workers'  law,  in  relation to updating benefits and
          modernizing coverage for services provided in the line of duty
 
          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 9-a to read as follows:
     3    § 9-a. Total disability benefits for injuries on or after July  first,
     4  two thousand sixteen. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight or
     5  nine  of  this  article,  in  the case of temporary total disability and
     6  permanent total disability when the volunteer firefighter is injured  in
     7  the  line  of  duty  on  or after July first, two thousand sixteen, said
     8  firefighter shall receive six hundred fifty dollars per week during  the
     9  continuance thereof.
    10    § 2. The volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law is amended by adding
    11  a new section 9-a to read as follows:
    12    §  9-a. Total disability benefits for injuries on or after July first,
    13  two thousand sixteen. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight or
    14  nine of this article, in the case  of  temporary  total  disability  and
    15  permanent  total  disability  when  the  volunteer  ambulance  worker is
    16  injured in the line of  duty  on  or  after  July  first,  two  thousand
    17  sixteen,  said  ambulance worker shall receive six hundred fifty dollars
    18  per week during the continuance thereof.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01658-02-6