Provides that supplemental service awards for volunteer ambulance workers shall not be deemed to be monetary compensation for the purposes for the immunity from liability granted to volunteer emergency medical personnel while providing emergency medical services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3526
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to immunity from
liability granted to volunteer emergency medical services personnel
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 3013 of the public health law, as
2 added by chapter 290 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
3 6. The availability of an award or other benefit under article
4 eleven-AA [or article], eleven-AAA or eleven-AAAA of the general munici-
5 pal law shall not be deemed monetary compensation for the purposes of
6 this section.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
8 have been in full force and effect on and after July 26, 2005.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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