Bill > A08774

This bill updates the charter of the South Lockport Volunteer Exempt Firefighters' Benevolent Association, a not-for-profit corporation serving volunteer firefighters in Lockport, New York. The bill modifies several key aspects of the organization's structure and purpose, including changing its official name from "Firemen's" to "Firefighters'" and expanding its mission. The organization's purposes are now more comprehensively defined to include providing relief and assistance to volunteer members who are indigent, disabled, or injured in the line of duty, maintaining a headquarters, promoting the welfare of volunteer members and their families, enhancing morale through social and recreational activities, and supporting the local volunteer fire service. The bill also updates provisions related to membership eligibility, clarifying that members include current and former volunteer members of the South Lockport Fire Company and residents in their fire protection territory. Additionally, the bill revises the organization's ability to collect and use foreign fire insurance premium taxes, specifying that these funds can now be used more broadly in furtherance of the corporation's expanded purposes, rather than being strictly limited to care for disabled or indigent firefighters and their families. The changes will take effect immediately, with the tax-related amendments applying to premiums received on or after January 1, 2026.

Budget and Finance, Government Affairs

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A8774