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Home/Bills/S 3111New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
Senate BillPassed first house

S 3111: Permits the principal of any high school to allow any local fire department, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of fire department junior recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified May 8, 2026

What S 3111 does, verified May 8, 2026

The bill allows local fire departments to make a recruitment presentation in a high school. The principal of a high school can grant permission for the fire department to enter the school for the purpose of recruitment. The fire department can make presentations, distribute literature, and answer questions by students during the recruitment event. The law takes effect one year after the bill becomes a law.

Bill journey
✓IntroducedComplete
✓In CommitteeComplete
✓First Chamber FloorComplete
4Second ChamberCurrent
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to education (2026-05-04)Alert me
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Patricia Canzoneri-FitzpatrickThomas O'MaraRob RolisonPatrick GallivanSamra BroukRobert JacksonDaniel StecJames TediscoPeter OberackerDean MurraySteven Rhoads
Recent actions17 total · showing 5
May. 04, 2026referred to education
May. 04, 2026referred to ways and means
May. 04, 2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
May. 04, 2026PASSED SENATE
Feb. 03, 2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
Full action history, 12 earlier actionsConnect Plus
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 23, 2025 · 203 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3111 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HELMING, BROUK, JACKSON, STEC, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting schools to allow fire departments to make a recruitment presentation in a high school The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 807-e 2 to read as follows: 3 § 807-e. Fire department recruitment. The principal of any high school 4 may allow any local fire department, upon request, to enter the school 5 for the purpose of fire department junior recruitment, including, but 6 not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and 7 answering questions by students. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 9 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07188-01-5 
Text of S 3111 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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