Assembly Bill A7783

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the payment of costs for line of duty injuries of police officers and firefighters

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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-A7783 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5907
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §12-127, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7830
2023-2024: A3758

2019-A7783 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the payment of costs for line of duty injuries of police officers and firefighters; requires such costs for retired members of the uniformed forces of the fire or police departments be paid by the city of New York.

2019-A7783 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7783
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 21, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to the payment of costs for line of duty injuries  of  police
   officers and firefighters

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions a and b of section 12-127 of  the  administra-
 tive code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 806 of the laws
 of 1986, are amended to read as follows:
   a.  Any  member  of the uniformed forces of the fire or police depart-
 ments, INCLUDING ANY RETIRED MEMBER OF SUCH  UNIFORMED  FORCES,  or  any
 person  employed  in  the  department  of  sanitation  in the sanitation
 service classification of the classified  civil  service  who  shall  be
 injured while actually employed in the discharge of police orders of his
 or her superior officers in the police station, fire house or sanitation
 section station, as the case may be, or as the result of illness tracea-
 ble  directly  to the performance of police, fire or sanitation duty, as
 the case may be, or any employee of the  department  of  parks,  general
 services,  ports  and  terminals or environmental protection or a person
 employed by the police commissioner as a school crossing guard who shall
 be injured while actually employed in the discharge of  duty,  shall  be
 received  by  any  hospital  for  care and treatment when such facts are
 certified to by the head of the department. Unless otherwise provided in
 this section, such members shall be received  by  any  hospital  at  the
 usual  ward  patient rates. The bill for such care and treatment at such
 rates, when certified by the superintendent or other person in charge of
 such hospital and approved by the  head  of  the  department  concerned,
 shall be paid by the city.
   b.  Any  member  of  the  uniformed  forces  of  the  fire  or  police
 department, INCLUDING ANY RETIRED MEMBER OF SUCH  UNIFORMED  FORCES,  or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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