Senate Bill S7315

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to amendments to the granting of certain service awards

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A8919 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S7315 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8919
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §219-d, Gen Muni L (as proposed in S. 899 and A. 6873)

2017-S7315 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to amendments to the granting of certain service awards.

2017-S7315 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7315 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7315
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to service  award
   programs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 8  of  section  219-d  of  the
 general  municipal  law,  as  amended  by  a chapter of the laws of 2017
 amending the general municipal law relating to service  award  programs,
 as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 899 and A. 6873, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (b) The entitlement age, the number  of  years  of  ambulance  service
 required  to  obtain  a nonforfeitable right to a service award, and the
 activities for which points shall be granted toward a year of  ambulance
 service  may be changed by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of
 at least sixty percent of the governing board  of  the  sponsor  without
 referendum;  provided,  that, consistent with the provisions of subdivi-
 sion three of section two hundred [nineteen-m] NINETEEN-E of this [chap-
 ter] ARTICLE, if the effect of the amendment is to increase  the  number
 of  points  granted  for  the  performance of the activity, decrease the
 amount of an activity required  to  earn  the  points  granted  for  the
 performance of the activity, or both, such amendment shall be subject to
 a  mandatory  referendum. Any amendment to a service award program shall
 only take effect as of the first of January next  succeeding  completion
 of the proceedings required for adoption of the amendment and shall only
 apply prospectively.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the  general  municipal
 law  relating to service award programs as proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S. 899 and A. 6873, takes effect.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00977-02-8

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