Assembly Bill A10288

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Implements a presumption of performance of duty disability for post-traumatic stress disorder in certain employees of Suffolk county

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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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2019-A10288 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Add §605-f, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A4946
2023-2024: A5713

2019-A10288 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Implements a presumption of performance of duty disability for post-traumatic stress disorder in certain employees of Suffolk county.

2019-A10288 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10288
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 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
   implementing a presumption of performance of duty disability for post-
   traumatic stress disorder in certain employees of Suffolk county
 
   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 605-f to read as follows:
   §  605-F.  ACCIDENTAL  DISABILITY  RETIREMENT FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES IN
 SUFFOLK COUNTY. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER OR OF  ANY
 GENERAL,  SPECIAL OR LOCAL LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY MEMBER WHO SERVES IN
 SUFFOLK COUNTY AS A PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER I, PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER
 II, PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER III, INCLUDING SPANISH SPEAKING DISPATCHERS
 IN SUCH  TITLES,  EMERGENCY  SERVICE  DISPATCHER  I,  EMERGENCY  SERVICE
 DISPATCHER  II,  EMERGENCY  SERVICE  DISPATCHER  III,  INCLUDING SPANISH
 SPEAKING DISPATCHERS  IN  SUCH  TITLES,  EMERGENCY  COMPLAINT  OPERATOR,
 INCLUDING  SPANISH SPEAKING OPERATORS IN SUCH TITLE, PUBLIC SAFETY OFFI-
 CER I, PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER II, PUBLIC SAFETY  OFFICER  III,  INCLUDING
 SPANISH SPEAKING OFFICERS IN SUCH TITLES, AND CASE WORKER OR CASE WORKER
 TRAINEE  IN  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  SOCIAL  SERVICES FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S
 SERVICE ADMINISTRATION, CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES  INVESTIGATING  BUREAU
 AND CHILD PROTECTIVE PREVENTATIVE SERVICES BUREAU, WHO IS DIAGNOSED WITH
 POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, RESULTING IN DISABILITY OR DEATH TO SUCH
 MEMBER, PRESENTLY EMPLOYED, AND WHO SHALL HAVE SUSTAINED SUCH DISABILITY
 WHILE  SO  EMPLOYED,  SHALL BE PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE THAT SUCH DISABILITY
 WAS INCURRED IN THE PERFORMANCE AND DISCHARGE OF DUTY  AND  THE  NATURAL
 AND  PROXIMATE  RESULT  OF AN ACCIDENT, UNLESS THE CONTRARY BE PROVED BY
 COMPETENT EVIDENCE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT PRIOR TO ENTRY INTO SERVICE,
 SUCH MEMBER WAS NOT  PREVIOUSLY  DIAGNOSED  WITH  POST-TRAUMATIC  STRESS
 DISORDER.
   §  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, none
 of the provisions of this act shall be subject  to  section  25  of  the
 retirement and social security law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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