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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4255
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 25, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- 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  excluding  money
          raised  by  fundraising  for volunteer emergency medical services when
          allocating state funding
 

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  3005-c to read as follows:
     3    §  3005-c.  Fundraising  by  volunteer  ambulance  companies.  1.  For
     4  purposes  of  this  section  a  "fundraising activity" means a method of
     5  raising funds to effectuate the lawful purposes of a volunteer ambulance
     6  company, but shall not  include  any  method  prohibited  by  the  state
     7  constitution  or  the  penal statutes of this state, or the conduct of a
     8  business or other commercial enterprise except on temporary basis for  a
     9  period  or  periods not to exceed a total of ninety days in any calendar
    10  year.

    11    2. Monies generated from fundraising activities shall not  be  consid-
    12  ered when determining state aid or reimbursement for services to partic-
    13  ipating  volunteer  ambulance  companies,  including  regional emergency
    14  medical councils.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09448-01-1