BILL NUMBER: S8648
SPONSOR: ASHBY
 
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:
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.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.