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NY A04729
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/5/2025
Primary Sponsor
D. Billy Jones
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AI Summary
- Creates a legal presumption that Parkinson's disease in volunteer firefighters is job-related for benefits purposes under the Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law
- Applies to volunteer firefighters who passed a physical examination upon entry or subsequently that showed no evidence of Parkinson's disease
- Presumes that disability or death from Parkinson's disease was caused by an accident during the performance of duty and not by the firefighter's own negligence
- Allows the presumption to be rebutted only by competent evidence proving otherwise
- Takes effect immediately and expires on June 30, 2030
Legislative Description
Provides that where any condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter, where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examination on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability or death was caused by the natural and proximate result of an accident, not caused by such firefighter's own negligence; and was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.
Last Action
enacting clause stricken
9/8/2025
Committee Referrals
Ways and Means2/11/2025
Local Governments2/5/2025
Full Bill Text
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