Bill Text: NY A07901 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to granting sick leave for officers and employees of the state, a public authority or a municipal corporation outside of a city with a population of one million or more with a qualifying World Trade Center condition; provides that such leave shall be provided without loss of an officer or employee's accrued sick leave.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Passed) 2017-09-11 - signed chap.273 [A07901 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7901
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 18, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees
        AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to granting sick
          leave for officers and employees with a qualifying World Trade  Center
          condition
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 92-d to read as follows:
     3    §  92-d. Sick leave for officers and employees with a qualifying World
     4  Trade Center condition. Notwithstanding any other  law,  rule  or  regu-
     5  lation  to  the contrary, officers and employees of any municipal corpo-
     6  ration or public authority outside of a city with a  population  of  one
     7  million  or more who previously filed a notice of participation in World
     8  Trade Center rescue, recovery or  cleanup  operations  and  subsequently
     9  develop a qualifying World Trade Center condition, as defined in section
    10  two  of the retirement and social security law, while employed with such
    11  municipal corporation or public authority shall be granted line of  duty
    12  sick  leave.  The officer or employee shall be compensated at his or her
    13  regular rate of pay for those regular work hours during which the  offi-
    14  cer  or employee is absent from work. Such leave shall be provided with-
    15  out loss of an officer or employee's accrued sick leave.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have  become  a  law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
    18  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    19  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
    20  and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11520-01-7