Bill Text: NY A04968 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the same benefits and services for post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency dispatchers and correction officers as are afforded police and firefighters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - REFERRED TO RULES [A04968 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04968-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4968--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SANTABARBARA,  BUTTENSCHON  -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees -- recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to access to certain
          mental health care services for emergency dispatchers  and  correction
          officers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  155 to read as follows:
     3    §   155.  Access  to  post-traumatic  stress  disorder  treatment  for
     4  correction officers and emergency dispatchers.   1. Correction  officers
     5  and  emergency  dispatchers employed by a municipality shall be entitled
     6  to the same benefits and services for the  diagnosis  and  treatment  of
     7  post-traumatic stress disorder as are afforded police officers and fire-
     8  fighters  employed  by such municipality, and such benefits and services
     9  shall be accessed through the same policies and procedures.
    10    2. Any collective bargaining agreement or employment contract  entered
    11  into  by  a  municipality  and  an  employee or an employee organization
    12  representing emergency dispatchers or correction  officers  employed  by
    13  such  municipality  shall provide the same benefits and services for the
    14  diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder as provided to
    15  police officers and firefighters employed by  such  municipality,  which
    16  shall  be  accessed  through the same policies and procedures, provided,
    17  however, that nothing  contained  in  this  section  shall  prohibit  an
    18  employee  organization representing emergency dispatchers and correction
    19  officers employed by a municipality  from  seeking  to  provide  greater
    20  benefits  and services for the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic
    21  stress disorder than those provided to police officers and  firefighters
    22  employed by such municipality.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09047-02-4