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 (Queens, N.Y.) With the ninth anniversary of the WTC terrorist attacks to be commemorated later this week, Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., a member of the Senate’s Committee on Civil Service and Pensions, reports that Governor David Paterson has signed a bill out of that committee sponsored by Senator Diane J. Savino (S7456), improving the September 11th Workers’ Protection Task Force, allowing the Task Force to continue to provide vital assistance to the thousands of heroes of the September 11 tragedy. Included in the legislation are measures to extend the task force for another five years, from 6/10/2010 to 6/10/2015 and to expand the composition of the Task Force to 20 members, including the medical director of the Mount Sinai Irving J.