New York 2025 Session Status: Passed Senate

S8953 — Establishes the Clarence Center Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association

Last action — Passed Assembly

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has passed the Senate. Introduced January 21, 2026. It now moves to the second chamber.

Next likely step: consideration and a floor vote in the Assembly.

Prognosis

Stalled 26% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

How often bills like it became law.

  • Passed Senate

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

In plain language

Creates the Clarence Center Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association with specific rules and guidelines.

This bill establishes a new association for volunteer exempt firefighters in Clarence Center, outlining membership, organization, and fund management. It sets forth eligibility, purposes, and procedures for handling financial matters.

Summary

Establishes the Clarence Center Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association; provides for eligibility of membership, purpose, powers and duties, organization meeting and by-laws, the control and disposal of funds and property and the precept for payment of foreign fire insurance premium taxes.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. RETURNED TO SENATE

  2. PASSED ASSEMBLY

  3. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.576

  4. SUBSTITUTED FOR A10051

  5. REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  6. DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  7. PASSED SENATE

  8. ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  9. 2ND REPORT CAL.

  10. 1ST REPORT CAL.1226

  11. REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 218 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (218)

218 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Subjects

public-safety labor
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Frequently asked questions

What does S8953 do?
Establishes the Clarence Center Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association; provides for eligibility of membership, purpose, powers and duties, organization meeting and by-laws, the control and disposal of funds and property and the precept for payment of foreign fire insurance premium taxes.
Who sponsors S8953?
S8953 is sponsored by Patrick M. Gallivan.
What is the current status of S8953?
This bill has passed the Senate. Introduced January 21, 2026. It now moves to the second chamber.
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