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NY A02079
Bill
Status
1/15/2025
Primary Sponsor
Brian Manktelow
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AI Summary
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Amends General Municipal Law section 204-b to allow youth program participants in fire department-sponsored programs to respond to emergencies and hazardous activities, reversing the previous prohibition on such involvement
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Requires youth participants who respond to emergencies to remain in a designated or marked-off area established by the fire chief or officer in charge
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Prohibits youth program participants from responding to emergencies aboard vehicles using lights and/or sirens
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Bars youth participants from entering burning structures during emergency responses
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Clarifies that youth program participants do not qualify as "active volunteer firefighters" under the Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law
Legislative Description
Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in a designated or marked off area that has been set up by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participant cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure.
Last Action
referred to local governments
1/7/2026