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Assembly Bill A1979A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to benefits for police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD

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2019-A1979 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5292
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11294
2021-2022: A4939, S4234
2023-2024: A2302, S3367
2025-2026: A4673, A8037, S7272

2019-A1979 - Summary

Relates to benefits for police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD by making their injury compensable if it cannot be shown, by a preponderance of evidence, that the PTSD was caused by factors unrelated to their occupation.

2019-A1979 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1979
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation  to  benefits
   for police officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diag-
   nosed with PTSD
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 10 of  the  workers'  compensation
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) WHERE A POLICE OFFICER, FIREFIGHTER, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN,
 PARAMEDIC,  EMERGENCY  DISPATCHER  OR  OTHER PERSON CERTIFIED TO PROVIDE
 MEDICAL CARE IN EMERGENCIES IS DIAGNOSED BY A PSYCHIATRIST  OR  PSYCHOL-
 OGIST  TO  HAVE  POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, IT SHALL BE PRESUMED TO
 HAVE BEEN INCURRED DURING SERVICE IN THE  LINE  OF  DUTY  AND  SHALL  BE
 COMPENSABLE,  UNLESS IT IS SHOWN BY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE THAT
 THE POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER WAS  CAUSED  BY  NONSERVICE-CONNECTED
 RISK FACTORS OR NONSERVICE-CONNECTED EXPOSURE.  SUCH PERSON WHO IS DIAG-
 NOSED WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER WITHIN THREE YEARS OF THE LAST
 ACTIVE  DATE  OF  EMPLOYMENT AS A POLICE OFFICER, FIREFIGHTER, EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, PARAMEDIC,  EMERGENCY  DISPATCHER  OR  OTHER  PERSON
 CERTIFIED  TO  PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE IN EMERGENCIES SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR
 BENEFITS UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06188-01-9

2019-A1979A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5292
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11294
2021-2022: A4939, S4234
2023-2024: A2302, S3367
2025-2026: A4673, A8037, S7272

2019-A1979A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to benefits for police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD by making their injury compensable if it cannot be shown, by a preponderance of evidence, that the PTSD was caused by factors unrelated to their occupation.

2019-A1979A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1979--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to benefits
   for police officers,  correction  officers,  firefighters,  and  other
   emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 10 of  the  workers'  compensation
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) WHERE A POLICE OFFICER, CORRECTION OFFICER, FIREFIGHTER, EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL  TECHNICIAN,  PARAMEDIC,  EMERGENCY  DISPATCHER  OR OTHER PERSON
 CERTIFIED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE  IN  EMERGENCIES  IS  DIAGNOSED  BY  A
 PSYCHIATRIST  OR PSYCHOLOGIST TO HAVE POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, IT
 SHALL BE PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN INCURRED DURING SERVICE IN  THE  LINE  OF
 DUTY  AND SHALL BE COMPENSABLE, UNLESS IT IS SHOWN BY A PREPONDERANCE OF
 THE EVIDENCE THAT THE  POST-TRAUMATIC  STRESS  DISORDER  WAS  CAUSED  BY
 NONSERVICE-CONNECTED  RISK  FACTORS  OR  NONSERVICE-CONNECTED  EXPOSURE.
 SUCH PERSON WHO IS DIAGNOSED WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER  WITHIN
 THREE  YEARS  OF THE LAST ACTIVE DATE OF EMPLOYMENT AS A POLICE OFFICER,
 CORRECTION OFFICER, FIREFIGHTER, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN,  PARAMED-
 IC,  EMERGENCY  DISPATCHER  OR OTHER PERSON CERTIFIED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL
 CARE IN EMERGENCIES SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS UNDER  THIS  SUBDIVI-
 SION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06188-02-9

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