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NY A10030
Bill
Status
5/6/2016
Primary Sponsor
Peter Abbate
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AI Summary
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Amends Retirement and Social Security Law Section 363-a to extend "heart disease" presumptive disability benefits to environmental police officers, capital police officers, and forest rangers employed by the Department of Environmental Conservation.
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Establishes that heart disease conditions resulting in disability or death are presumptive evidence of work-related injury for covered officers, unless proven otherwise by competent evidence.
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Updates outdated terminology from "fireman" and "policeman" to "firefighter" and "police officer" throughout the statute.
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Adds forest ranger service positions (supervisor, assistant supervisor, and ranger ranks 1-3) to the definition of covered "police or fire service" under the retirement system.
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment; fiscal analysis estimates negligible costs with few anticipated performance of duty disability retirements.
Legislative Description
Provides certain disability benefits for disabilities related to heart disease to sworn police officers of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation, capital police officers in the office of general services and forest rangers; provides that any condition of impairment of health, caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death to such sworn police officer, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance of such officer's duty.
Last Action
substituted by s7216a
6/15/2016