Assembly Bill A6793A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to impairments of health, presumption and staph/MRSA

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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-A6793 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3785
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Add §363-ddd, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S2236, S6817
2017-2018: S3770

2013-A6793 - Summary

Relates to impairments of health, presumption and staph/MRSA.

2013-A6793 - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6793

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 18, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
  impairments of health, presumption and staph/MRSA

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

  Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
a new section 363-ddd to read as follows:
  S  363-DDD.  IMPAIRMENTS OF HEALTH; PRESUMPTION; STAPH/MRSA.  NOTWITH-
STANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER OR OF  ANY  GENERAL,  SPECIAL  OR
LOCAL  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  ANY POLICE OFFICER OR FIREFIGHTER WHO IS
COVERED BY THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE  OF  THIS
TITLE  AND  WHO  CONTRACTS  METHICILLIN  RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
(MRSA) OR STAPH/MRSA WILL BE PRESUMED TO HAVE CONTRACTED SUCH DISEASE IN
THE PERFORMANCE OR DISCHARGE OF HIS OR HER DUTIES  AS  THE  NATURAL  AND
PROXIMATE  RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT AND TO BE DISABLED FROM THE PERFORMANCE
OF HIS OR  HER  DUTIES  UNLESS  THE  CONTRARY  BE  PROVEN  BY  COMPETENT
EVIDENCE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
  FISCAL  NOTE.--Pursuant  to Legislative Law, Section 50 and Retirement
and Social Security Law Section 25:
  Re: Fiscal Note #2013-58
  This bill will affect certain members of the New York State and  Local
Police  and Fire Retirement System by presuming that contracting MRSA or
Staph/MRSA will qualify them for an  accidental  disability  retirement,
unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.
  If  this  bill  is  enacted,  it would lead to more disabilities being
classified as " accidental". For the disabilities so classified  due  to
this  bill,  the  cost  would  depend  on whether such person would have
otherwise been eligible for an ordinary  disability,  a  performance  of
duty  disability  or  a  service retirement. For those who contract such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09076-01-3
              

2013-A6793A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3785
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Add §363-ddd, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S2236, S6817
2017-2018: S3770

2013-A6793A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to impairments of health, presumption and staph/MRSA.

2013-A6793A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                 6793--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 18, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Governmental  Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on Govern-
  mental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit-
  tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
  mitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
  impairments of health, presumption and staph/MRSA

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

  Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
a new section 363-ddd to read as follows:
  S  363-DDD.  IMPAIRMENTS OF HEALTH; PRESUMPTION; STAPH/MRSA.  NOTWITH-
STANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER OR OF  ANY  GENERAL,  SPECIAL  OR
LOCAL  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  ANY POLICE OFFICER OR FIREFIGHTER WHO IS
COVERED BY THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE  OF  THIS
TITLE  AND  WHO  CONTRACTS  METHICILLIN  RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
(MRSA) OR STAPH/MRSA WILL BE PRESUMED TO HAVE CONTRACTED SUCH DISEASE IN
THE PERFORMANCE OR DISCHARGE OF HIS OR HER DUTIES  AS  THE  NATURAL  AND
PROXIMATE  RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT AND TO BE DISABLED FROM THE PERFORMANCE
OF HIS OR  HER  DUTIES  UNLESS  THE  CONTRARY  BE  PROVEN  BY  COMPETENT
EVIDENCE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
  FISCAL  NOTE.--  This bill will affect certain members of the New York
State and Local Police and Fire  Retirement  System  by  presuming  that
contracting MRSA or Staph/MRSA will qualify them for an accidental disa-
bility retirement, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.
  If  this  bill  is  enacted,  it would lead to more disabilities being
classified as "accidental". For the disabilities so  classified  due  to
this  bill,  the  cost  would  depend  on whether such person would have
otherwise been eligible for an ordinary  disability,  a  performance  of
duty  disability  or  a  service retirement. For those who contract such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09076-02-4
              

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