Requires the office of fire prevention and control to pay training stipends in specific amounts to volunteer firefighters for completion of certain firefighter trainings; provides that if a volunteer fire company pays training stipends to volunteer firefighters in an amount below what is otherwise required to be paid by OFPC, OFPC shall pay the remaining amount.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7331
SPONSOR: Bendett TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to training
stipends paid by the office of fire prevention and control to volunteer
firefighters
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To increase stipends for Volunteer FireFighter Training courses to
double the current amount.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 200-aa of the general munici-
pal law, as added by section 2 of part H of chapter 55 of the laws of
2023, are amended to read as follows:
3. The office of fire prevention and control may make available state
funds through a training stipend to volunteer firefighters for
completion of certain firefighter training, as identified and published
by the office of fire prevention and control;_provided,_however,_that
the office of fire prevention and control shall make available state
funds through a training stipend to volunteer firefighters for the
completion of the following firefighter trainings,as identified and
published by the office of fire prevention and control,in the following
amounts:
(a) a stipend of fifteen hundred dollars for completion of the_basic
exterior firefighting operations with hazardous material first responder
operations course,or equivalent; and
(b) a stipend of twenty-five hundred dollars for completion of the self-
contained breathing apparatus with interior fighting operations course,
or equivalent.
JUSTIFICATION:
To relieve the burden of taking lengthy training for members of volun-
teer fire departments.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
None.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
To be Determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect Immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7331
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to training
stipends paid by the office of fire prevention and control to volun-
teer firefighters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 200-aa of the general
2 municipal law, as added by section 2 of part H of chapter 55 of the laws
3 of 2023, are amended to read as follows:
4 3. The office of fire prevention and control may make available state
5 funds through a training stipend to volunteer firefighters for
6 completion of certain firefighter training, as identified and published
7 by the office of fire prevention and control; provided, however, that
8 the office of fire prevention and control shall make available state
9 funds through a training stipend to volunteer firefighters for the
10 completion of the following firefighter trainings, as identified and
11 published by the office of fire prevention and control, in the following
12 amounts:
13 (a) a stipend of fifteen hundred dollars for completion of the basic
14 exterior firefighting operations with hazardous material first responder
15 operations course, or equivalent; and
16 (b) a stipend of twenty-five hundred dollars for completion of the
17 self-contained breathing apparatus with interior fighting operations
18 course, or equivalent.
19 4. No volunteer firefighter [may] shall receive a training stipend
20 from both a volunteer fire company pursuant to subdivision two of this
21 section and the office of fire prevention and control pursuant to subdi-
22 vision three of this section for completion of the same firefighter
23 training; provided, however, that if a volunteer fire company provides a
24 training stipend to a volunteer firefighter for completion of a fire-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 fighter training listed under paragraph (a) or (b) of subdivision three
2 of this section in an amount less than the amount directed to be paid by
3 the office of fire prevention and control under such paragraph (a) or
4 (b), the office of fire prevention and control shall pay a supplemental
5 training stipend to such volunteer firefighter in the amount of the
6 difference between the amount directed to be paid under paragraph (a) or
7 (b) of subdivision three of this section and the amount paid by such
8 volunteer fire company.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
