---
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: "2019-2020"
identifier: "A 7646"
citation: "New York A 7646 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BRONSON"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-14"
last_action: "2020-12-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ae54d42-29e7-4ebe-ace4-71fc052f2acb"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A7646"
source_hash: "ce3f95a29cc260bd19bba2cc2ac0244c3484892be22abddca300abd50d7c1f6c"
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 7646 (2019-2020) — 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. **A7646** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A7646&term=2019&Text=Y)
2. **A7646A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A7646A)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **141–1** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **60–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- BRONSON — primary (person)
- JOHNS — cosponsor (person)
- KOLB — cosponsor (person)
- ROMEO — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-14** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-11** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2020-07-11** PRINT NUMBER 7646A `amendment-passage`
- **2020-07-16** REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-17** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-20** REPORTED
- **2020-07-20** RULES REPORT CAL.171
- **2020-07-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.171
- **2020-07-22** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-07-22** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2020-07-22** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-22** SUBSTITUTED FOR S6144A
- **2020-07-22** 3RD READING CAL.888
- **2020-07-22** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-07-22** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-12-03** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-12-15** SIGNED CHAP.325 `executive-signature`
- **2020-12-15** APPROVAL MEMO.34

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ae54d42-29e7-4ebe-ace4-71fc052f2acb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).