File #: Int 0903-2023    Version: * Name: Requiring provision of body armor to fire department employees providing emergency medical services.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 2/2/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring provision of body armor to fire department employees providing emergency medical services
Sponsors: Joseph C. Borelli, Joann Ariola , Kevin C. Riley, Kalman Yeger , Lynn C. Schulman, Robert F. Holden, Vickie Paladino, David M. Carr
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the Fire Department to provide the type of body armor it determines would be most suitable for the protection of its employees engaged in the provision of emergency medical services.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 903, 2. Int. No. 903, 3. February 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-2-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 2, 2023, 6. Committee Report 11/28/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 11/28/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 11/28/23
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12/31/2023*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/28/2023*Joseph C. Borelli Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/28/2023*Joseph C. Borelli Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/2/2023*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/2/2023*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 903

 

By Council Members Borelli, Ariola, Riley, Yeger, Schulman, Holden, Paladino and Carr

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring provision of body armor to fire department employees providing emergency medical services

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 15 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 15-147 to read as follows:

§ 15-147 Provision of body armor. a. Within 1 year after the effective date of the local law that added this section, the commissioner shall provide body armor to all employees of the department who provide emergency medical services. Such body armor shall be of the type that the commissioner determines would be most suitable for the protection of such employees and shall meet a ballistic resistance or stab resistance standard of the national institute of justice or any successor standards.

b. No employee of the department shall be permitted to retain or use the body armor provided pursuant to subdivision a of this section after leaving the employment of the department or moving to a position that does not involve the provision of emergency medical services.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LS #11169

01/09/2023