A 2039: Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2039 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SLATER, BENDETT, BRABENEC, E. BROWN, MAHER, LEMONDES, ANGELINO, TAGUE, McDONOUGH, DeSTEFANO, WALSH, PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of certain crimes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (m) of section 217 of the general municipal 2 law, as added by chapter 617 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 (m) A participant who is convicted of the crime of arson in any degree 5 as defined in the penal law or any other felony defined in the penal law 6 where such crime was committed against a volunteer fire department, 7 volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district shall 8 not be eligible to receive benefits from a service award program and 9 shall forfeit any and all rights [he or she] such participant may have 10 had to past or future benefits pursuant to a service award program. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05037-01-5