senate Bill S1929

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to optional disability coverage for county probation officers

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Jan 08, 2020 referred to local government
Jan 17, 2019 referred to local government

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S1929 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2232
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §207-c, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7928, A10613
2017-2018: S2516, S7554, A473, A9667
2021-2022: S2633, S2988, A994
2023-2024: S366, A147

S1929 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides optional disability coverage for county probation officers.

S1929 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S1929 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1929

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 17, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR, HELMING -- read twice and ordered
  printed, and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Local
  Government

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to optional disa-
  bility coverage for county probation officers

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207-c  of  the  general  municipal
law,  as  amended  by  section 55 of chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is
amended to read as follows:
  1. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or corrections officer of
the sheriff's department of any county or any member of a  police  force
of  any  county,  city  of  less  than  one  million population, town or
village, or of any district, agency, board, body or commission  thereof,
or  any LIRR police officer as defined in paragraph two of subdivision a
of section three hundred eighty-nine of the retirement and social  secu-
rity  law  whose  benefits  are provided in and pursuant to such section
three hundred eighty-nine, or  a  detective-investigator  or  any  other
investigator  who  is a police officer pursuant to the provisions of the
criminal procedure law employed in the office of a district attorney  of
any  county, or any corrections officer of the county of Erie department
of corrections, or an advanced ambulance medical technician employed  by
the  county  of Nassau, or any detention officer employed by the city of
Yonkers,  or  any  supervising  fire  inspector,  fire  inspector,  fire
marshal,  or  assistant fire marshal employed full-time in the county of
Nassau fire marshal's office, or at the option of [the] ANY  county  [of
Nassau],  any  COUNTY probation officer [of the county of Nassau] who is
injured in the performance of his or her duties or who is taken sick  as
a  result  of  the performance of his or her duties so as to necessitate
medical or other lawful remedial treatment shall be paid by the  munici-
pality  or  The  Long  Island  Rail  Road  Company by which he or she is

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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