S 4675 NY
Provides minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters
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Summary
The bill requires the New York State office of fire prevention and control to develop and provide minimum basic training to all firefighters (both paid and volunteer) on handling emergency situations involving individuals with physical and/or developmental disabilities. The training development must be coordinated with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer. The office of fire prevention and control must adopt all necessary rules and regulations to implement this training requirement.
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Empowers the office of fire prevention and control to, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer, provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters.
Sponsor (1)
- Robert Jackson Democratic · primary
3 coauthors / cosponsors
- Cordell Cleare Democratic · cosponsor
- Nathalia Fernandez Democratic · cosponsor
- Julia Salazar Democratic · cosponsor
Action history (7)
- Feb 11, 2025 REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS · upper
- Apr 29, 2025 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS · upper
- Apr 28, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.860 · upper
- Apr 29, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- May 4, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- May 6, 2026 SUBSTITUTED BY A688 · upper
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S04675 Summary: BILL NO S04675   SAME AS SAME AS A00688
  SPONSOR JACKSON   COSPNSR CLEARE, FERNANDEZ, SALAZAR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §156, Exec L   Empowers the office of fire prevention and control to, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer, provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
4675
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 11, 2025 ___________
Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 156 of the executive law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 23 to read as follows: 3 23. In addition to the requirements of subdivision twenty-two of this 4 section, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people 5 with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer, 6 provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations 7 involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability 8 to all firefighters, both paid and volunteer. The office shall adopt all 9 necessary rules and regulations relating to such training. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02082-01-5
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