S 10597 New York 2025-2026 session

Provides pay per call and paid on call stipends for volunteer firefighters and travel expense reimbursement for call response

Allows an authority having jurisdiction over a volunteer fire department or fire company in a county, city, town, village, fire district, or fire protection district to provide volunteer firefighters with a stipend of a nominal fee for responses to calls and for certain standby services; includes volunteer firefighters within the labor law definition of "employee" of a federal, state or municipal government of political subdivision thereof; establishes the volunteer fire service nominal compensation assistance fund.

Status

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Floor vote
  4. Passed
  5. Enacted

In committee — last recorded action May 28, 2026

REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Passage likelihood

34% Comparable to other bills at this stage

This is an estimate, not a guarantee. It is computed from the signals listed below and nothing else. It does not account for leadership priorities, floor scheduling, or negotiations that are not in the public record.

What the estimate is based on

  • Historical base rate About 20% of introduced state bills are enacted.
  • Current stage Referred to committee.
  • Cosponsors 3 cosponsors.

State-level impact

State-level impact data is not available for this bill. The source text does not contain a per-state funding formula or scored breakdown, so no figures are shown.

Official actions

  1. REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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