Assembly Bill A1675

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides eligibility for benefits for injuries sustained while performing the high risk duties of law enforcement

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A1675 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §207-c, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A583
2011-2012: A107

2013-A1675 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides eligibility for benefits for injuries sustained while performing the high risk duties of law enforcement.

2013-A1675 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1675

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LIFTON
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  eligibility
  for  disability  benefits  for injuries sustained while performing the
  high risk duties of law enforcement

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  207-c  of the general municipal law, as added by
chapter 920 of the laws of 1961, subdivision 1 as amended by  section  3
of  chapter  675 of the laws of 1997, subdivisions 2, 3 and 5 as amended
by chapter 661 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
  S 207-c. Payment of salary, wages, medical and  hospital  expenses  of
policemen   with  injuries  or  illness  incurred  in the performance of
duties ENTAILING THE HEIGHTENED RISK OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
  1. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or corrections officer of
the sheriff's department of any county (hereinafter  referred  to  as  a
["policeman"]  "POLICE  OFFICER") or any member of a police force of any
county, city of less than one million population, town or village, or of
any district, agency, board, body or commission  thereof,  or  a  detec-
tive-investigator  or  any  other  investigator  who is a police officer
pursuant to the provisions of the criminal procedure law employed in the
office of a district attorney of any county, or any corrections  officer
of  the  county  of Erie department of corrections, or an advanced ambu-
lance medical technician employed by the county of Nassau, or any super-
vising fire inspector, fire inspector, fire marshal  or  assistant  fire
marshal  employed  full-time  in  the  county  of  Nassau fire marshal's
office, or at the option of the county of Nassau, any probation  officer
of  the county of Nassau who is injured in the performance of his OR HER
duties ENTAILING THE HEIGHTENED RISK OF LAW ENFORCEMENT or who is  taken
sick  as  a result of the performance of his OR HER duties ENTAILING THE
HEIGHTENED RISK OF LAW ENFORCEMENT so as to necessitate medical or other
lawful remedial treatment shall be paid by the municipality by which  he
OR SHE is employed the full amount of his OR HER regular salary or wages
              

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