A11294 Summary:

BILL NOA11294
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORRules (Ortiz)
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §10, Work Comp L
 
Relates to benefits for police officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD by making their injury compensable if it cannot be shown, by a preponderance of evidence, that the PTSD was caused by factors unrelated to their occupation.
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A11294 Actions:

BILL NOA11294
 
07/25/2018referred to labor
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A11294 Committee Votes:

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A11294 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A11294 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          11294
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      July 25, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Ortiz) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation  to  benefits
          for police officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diag-
          nosed with PTSD
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 10 of  the  workers'  compensation
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Where a police officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician,
     4  paramedic,  emergency  dispatcher  or  other person certified to provide
     5  medical care in emergencies is diagnosed by a psychiatrist  or  psychol-
     6  ogist  to  have  post-traumatic stress disorder, it shall be presumed to
     7  have been incurred during service in the  line  of  duty  and  shall  be
     8  compensable,  unless it is shown by a preponderance of the evidence that
     9  the post-traumatic stress disorder was  caused  by  nonservice-connected
    10  risk factors or nonservice-connected exposure.  Such person who is diag-
    11  nosed with post-traumatic stress disorder within three years of the last
    12  active  date  of  employment as a police officer, firefighter, emergency
    13  medical technician, paramedic,  emergency  dispatcher  or  other  person
    14  certified  to  provide medical care in emergencies shall be eligible for
    15  benefits under this subdivision.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16416-01-8
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