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

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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]

Download: New_York-2017-A07901-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7901--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 18, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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 the  state,  a  public
     6  authority  or  any  municipal corporation outside of a city with a popu-
     7  lation of one million or more who filed a  notice  of  participation  in
     8  World  Trade  Center  rescue,  recovery or cleanup operations and subse-
     9  quently develop a qualifying World Trade Center condition, as defined in
    10  section two of the retirement and social security law, while employed by
    11  the state, a public authority or such municipal  corporation  or  public
    12  authority  shall  be  granted  line of duty sick leave commencing on the
    13  date that such employee was diagnosed  with  a  qualifying  World  Trade
    14  Center  condition  regardless  of  whether  such officer or employee was
    15  employed by his or her current employer at the time that such officer or
    16  employee participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or  cleanup
    17  operations.  The  officer or employee shall be compensated at his or her
    18  regular rate of pay for those regular work hours during which the  offi-
    19  cer  or employee is absent from work. Such leave shall be provided with-
    20  out loss of an officer or employee's accrued sick leave.
    21    § 2. The state shall  reimburse  any  public  authority  or  municipal
    22  corporation  of  less  than  one million people for the cost of any line
    23  duty sick leave granted pursuant to this act.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
     2  any  officer  or employee who is currently employed by the state, public
     3  authority or municipal corporation who has been diagnosed with a  quali-
     4  fying  World  Trade Center condition and is using sick leave due to such
     5  condition  shall receive a restoration of such sick leave retroactive to
     6  the date such officer or employee was diagnosed with a qualifying  World
     7  Trade Center condition.