A4729 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Provides that where any condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter, where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examination on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability or death was caused by the natural and proximate result of an accident, not caused by such firefighter's own negligence; and was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.
- Title
- Relates to a presumption for Parkinson's disease
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- Stricken
- Latest action date
- 2025-09-08
- Introduced
- 2025-02-05
- Same as
- S8376
- Law section
- Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Stacey Pheffer Amato Assembly Member, District 23
Heard in committee
- Local Governments NY State Assembly committee
- Ways and Means NY State Assembly committee