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legislation/us/states/ny/2019-2020/s-6524.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to the minimum qualifications to serve as a fire chief in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs six or more paid firefighters"
+description: "Relates to the minimum qualifications to serve as a fire chief in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs six or more paid firefighters."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "S 6524"
+citation: "New York S 6524 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["GOUNARDES"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-06-14"
+last_action: "2019-12-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98ecf39e-2d15-4146-b51c-94e1f291cc3c"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S6524"
+source_hash: "98fb95406827ca81c78521587ed68dda3eba9a23f2c492d46203e697191e3eba"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 6524 (2019-2020) — Relates to the minimum qualifications to serve as a fire chief in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs six or more paid firefighters
+
+Relates to the minimum qualifications to serve as a fire chief in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs six or more paid firefighters.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S6524** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6524&term=2019&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Vote — **60–2** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **141–3** (pass) · lower
+- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- GOUNARDES — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-14** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1650
+- **2019-06-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2019-06-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2019-06-19** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8341
+- **2019-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.571
+- **2019-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2019-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2019-12-10** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-12-16** SIGNED CHAP.678 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98ecf39e-2d15-4146-b51c-94e1f291cc3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+