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NY S08232
Bill
Status
5/27/2025
Primary Sponsor
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
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AI Summary
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Updates the name of the Thornwood volunteer firefighters' benevolent association to use gender-neutral language ("Firefighters'" instead of "Firemen's")
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Expands the association's purposes beyond relief for disabled or indigent members to include: maintaining headquarters, providing for health and safety, enhancing morale through social and recreational activities, and promoting the volunteer fire service
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Authorizes the association to collect taxes imposed under Insurance Law sections 9104 and 9105 on fire insurance premiums for property within the territory protected by the Thornwood fire department
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Allows collected insurance taxes to be used for all of the association's expanded purposes, rather than only for care and relief of disabled or indigent firefighters and their families
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Takes effect immediately, with the tax collection provisions applying to premiums received on and after January 1, 2026
Legislative Description
Expands the purposes of the volunteer and exempt firefighters' benevolent association of Thornwood, New York; provides for the payment to it of certain taxes imposed upon premiums on policies of fire insurance in foreign insurance companies.
Last Action
SUBSTITUTED BY A2684
6/10/2025