A79 • 2025

Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years

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Sponsor: Stacey Pheffer Amato
Last action: 2026-06-01
Official status: Passed Senate
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years

Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years.

What This Bill Does

Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years.

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Bill History

2026-06-01 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-06-01 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-06-01 Assembly
RULES REPORT CAL.288
2026-06-01 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.288
2026-06-01 Assembly
HOME RULE REQUEST
2026-06-01 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-06-01 Assembly
DELIVERED TO SENATE
2026-06-01 Senate
REFERRED TO RULES
2026-06-01 Senate
SUBSTITUTED FOR S10186
2026-06-01 Senate
3RD READING CAL.1509
2026-06-01 Senate
HOME RULE REQUEST
2026-06-01 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-06-01 Senate
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-29 Assembly
REFERENCE CHANGED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CITIES
2025-01-08 Assembly
REFERRED TO CITIES

Official Summary Text

Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years
Requires body armor worn by New York city emergency services personnel to be replaced every five years.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           79

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Cities

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to requiring the city of New York to replace body armor worn
          by emergency services personnel every five years

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision a of section 15-148 of the administrative code
     2  of the city of New York, as added by local law number 60 of the city  of
     3  New York for the year 2024, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  The  commissioner shall provide body armor to all employees of the
     5  department within the bureau of emergency medical services  who  provide
     6  emergency  medical  services.  Such body armor shall be of the type that
     7  the commissioner determines would be most suitable for the protection of
     8  such employees, and shall meet ballistic and stab  resistance  standards
     9  of  the  national  institute of justice or any successor standards. SUCH
    10  BODY ARMOR SHALL BE REPLACED EVERY FIVE YEARS.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00003-01-5