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Home/Bills/S 906New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 906: Makes permanent provisions creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters.

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

What S 906 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill aims to make provisions related to volunteer firefighters' benefits permanent. It specifically seeks to create a presumption that certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters are related to their work. The bill would amend the existing law to make these provisions permanent and would take effect immediately.

Bill journey
1IntroducedCurrent
2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jacob AshbyMonica MartinezRachel MaySteven RhoadsRob RolisonBill WeberAlexis WeikRobert JacksonMario MatteraLea WebbChris Ryan
Recent actions2 total · showing 2
Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Jan. 08, 2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 221 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 906 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ASHBY, MARTINEZ, MAY, RHOADS, ROLISON, WEBER, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend chapter 606 of the laws of 2006, amending the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, relating to creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters, in relation to making such provisions permanent The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2 of chapter 606 of the laws of 2006, amending the 2 volunteer firefighters' benefit law, relating to creating a presumption 3 relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefight- 4 ers, as amended by section 1 of item BB of subpart B of part XXX of 5 chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately [and shall expire and be 7 deemed repealed June 30, 2025]. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00387-01-5 
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