{"id":250653,"date":"2023-02-17T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/?p=250653"},"modified":"2023-02-17T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:25:21","slug":"nys-bill-introduced-by-cooney-includes-fire-districts-within-the-definition-of-municipal-corporation-to-include-employees-of-fire-districts-within-the-health-care-and-mental-hygiene-worker-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/nyspffa_news\/nys-bill-introduced-by-cooney-includes-fire-districts-within-the-definition-of-municipal-corporation-to-include-employees-of-fire-districts-within-the-health-care-and-mental-hygiene-worker-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"NYS Bill introduced by COONEY includes fire districts within the definition of “municipal corporation” to include employees of fire districts within the health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses."},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK STATE SENATE
\nINTRODUCER'S MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT
\nsubmitted in accordance with Senate Rule VI. Sec 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

BILL NUMBER:<\/u><\/strong> S4864<\/p>\n

SPONSOR:<\/u><\/strong> COONEY<\/p>\n

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TITLE OF BILL<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to health care and<\/p>\n

mental hygiene worker bonuses<\/p>\n

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PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

This bill includes fire districts as eligible employers under the New<\/p>\n

York State Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonus (HWB) Program.<\/p>\n

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SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

This bill amends the social services law by amending section 367-w to<\/p>\n

include fire districts under the definition of municipal corporation.<\/p>\n

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JUSTIFICATION<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Part ZZ of Chapter 56 of the Laws of 2022 established the New York State<\/p>\n

Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonus (HWB) Program, which allo-<\/p>\n

cated funding for the payment of bonuses for certain frontline health-<\/p>\n

care workers.<\/p>\n

While fire districts are covered under the definition of municipal<\/p>\n

corporation in other sections of state law (General Municipal Law<\/p>\n

section 119-n), fire districts were not included in the definition of<\/p>\n

municipal corporation under Chapter 56 of the Laws of 2022.<\/p>\n

Despite the state Department of Health clarifying on the NYS Health Care<\/p>\n

Worker Bonus (HWB) Program FAQ website that fire districts are \"eligible<\/p>\n

employers,\" the first responders employed by fire districts have unable<\/p>\n

to access the HWB Program.<\/p>\n

This legislation would address this technical drafting error and allow<\/p>\n

for the front line health care workers, including certified first<\/p>\n

responders, emergency medical technicians, advanced emergency medical<\/p>\n

technicians, and paramedics employed by fire districts to be eligible<\/p>\n

for the HWB Program.<\/p>\n

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PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

None<\/p>\n

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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

None<\/p>\n

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EFFECTIVE DATE<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

This act shall take effect immediately<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK STATE SENATE INTRODUCER’S MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT submitted in accordance with Senate Rule VI. Sec 1 BILL NUMBER: S4864 SPONSOR: COONEY TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the social services law, in relation to health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill includes fire districts as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyspffa_news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MTL9-13cN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250654,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250653\/revisions\/250654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}