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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8466
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 29, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Local Governments
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.
6 § 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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