---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes three firefighters in the City of Syracuse Fire Department, in the county of Onondaga, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program"
description: "Authorizes Morgan McDole, Baraaka J. Titus and David Dunlap, firefighters in the City of Syracuse Fire Department, in the county of Onondaga, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 5956"
citation: "New York S 5956 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["MAY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-05-16"
last_action: "2019-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c247207-d784-4f01-a4f4-7dbd3cb5d55a"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S5956"
source_hash: "a647ec93e6e80ca62e75937c3179d0ffe2dfeedc7d23dd3af229d2c65e7dde11"
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 5956 (2019-2020) — Authorizes three firefighters in the City of Syracuse Fire Department, in the county of Onondaga, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program

Authorizes Morgan McDole, Baraaka J. Titus and David Dunlap, firefighters in the City of Syracuse Fire Department, in the county of Onondaga, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5956** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5956&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **145–3** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- MAY — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-16** REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1576
- **2019-06-18** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2019-06-18** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-06-18** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-06-19** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** SUBSTITUTED FOR A6314
- **2019-06-19** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.453
- **2019-06-19** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2019-06-19** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2019-06-19** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2019-10-01** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2019-10-04** SIGNED CHAP.353 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c247207-d784-4f01-a4f4-7dbd3cb5d55a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).