Bill Text: NY A09438 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for paid time off for port authority of New York and New Jersey police officers who become ill or injured while in the performance of their duties as to necessitate medical or other remedial treatment.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-16 - REFERRED TO RULES [A09438 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09438-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9438 IN ASSEMBLY March 3, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend chapter 154 of the laws of 1921, relating to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in relation to paid time off for Port Authority police officers who become ill or injured in the performance of their duties The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Chapter 154 of the laws of 1921, relating to the Port 2 Authority of New York and New Jersey, is amended by adding a new article 3 23 to read as follows: 4 ARTICLE XXIII 5 1. Any member of the police department of the port authority of New 6 York and New Jersey who is injured in the performance of his or her 7 duties or who is taken sick as a result of the performance of his or her 8 duties so as to necessitate medical or other lawful remedial treatment 9 shall be paid by the port authority the full amount of his or her regu- 10 lar salary or wages until his or her disability arising therefrom has 11 ceased, and, in addition the port authority shall be liable for all 12 medical treatment and hospital care necessitated by reason of such inju- 13 ry or illness. Provided, however, and notwithstanding the foregoing 14 provisions of this article, the port authority police health authorities 15 or any physician appointed for the purpose by the police department, 16 after a determination has first been made that such injury or sickness 17 was incurred during, or resulted from such performance of duty, may 18 attend any such injured or sick member, from time to time, for the 19 purpose of providing medical, surgical or other treatment, or for making 20 inspections and the police department shall not be liable for salary or 21 wages payable to such member, or for the cost of medical treatment or 22 hospital care furnished after such date as such health authorities or 23 physician shall certify that such injured or sick member has recovered 24 and is physically able to perform his or her regular duties. Any injured 25 or sick member who shall refuse to accept medical treatment or hospital 26 care or shall refuse to permit medical inspections as authorized by this EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01784-01-5
