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NY S07216
Bill
Status
11/14/2016
Primary Sponsor
Rich Funke
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AI Summary
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Amends Retirement and Social Security Law Section 363-a to add presumptive evidence that heart disease disabilities for environmental police officers, forest rangers, and capital police officers resulted from job duties unless proven otherwise.
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Extends existing "heart bill" provisions covering firefighters and police officers to include forest rangers and sworn officers of the Division of Forest Protection and Fire Management in the Department of Environmental Conservation.
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Updates statutory language to replace outdated terms "fireman" and "policeman" with "firefighter" and "police officer" throughout Section 363-a.
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Requires affected officers to have passed a pre-employment physical examination showing no evidence of heart disease to qualify for presumptive duty-disability benefits.
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Takes effect immediately; fiscal note anticipates negligible costs with few additional performance-of-duty disability retirements expected.
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
SIGNED CHAP.437
11/14/2016