S 4049: Relates to requiring coverage for volunteer firefighters for full cancer screenings upon entry of service to a fire department or fire company and annually thereafter; provides that the costs of such screenings shall be covered by the state.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4049 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, ASHBY, FERNANDEZ, GRIFFO, ROLISON, WEBB, WEBER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation to coverage for cancer screenings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 5 of the volunteer firefighters' 2 benefit law is amended by adding a new paragraph q to read as follows: 3 q. While, within the state, undergoing a full cancer screening, as 4 determined by the commissioner of health, upon entry of service to a 5 fire department or fire company and annually thereafter. The costs of 6 such full cancer screenings shall be borne entirely by the state. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03046-01-5