---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to ensuring paid employees of a county airport or county aviation department which perform fire response or fire rescue duties are eligible for equal benefits as other paid firefighters"
description: "Relates to ensuring paid employees of a county airport or county aviation department which perform fire response or fire rescue duties are eligible for equal benefits as other paid firefighters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "A 972"
citation: "New York A 972 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BRONSON"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-06"
last_action: "2021-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfc5c7c1-485d-4124-858a-c1e2e796edd6"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A972"
source_hash: "5fa8233e7df2f39dcc004cbad5c07beea09b1260d97f19e62198c4f5a7262f8e"
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 A 972 (2021-2022) — Relates to ensuring paid employees of a county airport or county aviation department which perform fire response or fire rescue duties are eligible for equal benefits as other paid firefighters

Relates to ensuring paid employees of a county airport or county aviation department which perform fire response or fire rescue duties are eligible for equal benefits as other paid firefighters.

## Version chain

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

1. **A972** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A972&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **150–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- BRONSON — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-06** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-12** REPORTED
- **2021-01-14** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.8
- **2021-01-19** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-01-19** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2021-01-19** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-03** SUBSTITUTED FOR S1308
- **2021-02-03** 3RD READING CAL.79
- **2021-02-03** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-02-03** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-02-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-16** SIGNED CHAP.27 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfc5c7c1-485d-4124-858a-c1e2e796edd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).