A 79: Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 79 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the city of New York to replace body armor worn by emergency services personnel every five years The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 15-148 of the administrative code 2 of the city of New York, as added by local law number 60 of the city of 3 New York for the year 2024, is amended to read as follows: 4 a. The commissioner shall provide body armor to all employees of the 5 department within the bureau of emergency medical services who provide 6 emergency medical services. Such body armor shall be of the type that 7 the commissioner determines would be most suitable for the protection of 8 such employees, and shall meet ballistic and stab resistance standards 9 of the national institute of justice or any successor standards. Such 10 body armor shall be replaced every five years. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00003-01-5